Criminal Law
An Investor Who Donated $1M to Trump’s Inauguration Was Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
A Federal Judge in California on Thursday sentenced a venture capitalist who donated nearly $1 million to former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee to 12 years in prison for falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level U.S. officials.
Imaad Zuberi was also fined $1.75 million and ordered to pay $15.7 million in restitution.
Zuberi, 50, agreed to plead guilty in 2019 to tax evasion, filing false foreign agent registration records, and providing almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions to various presidential election campaigns and other candidates for elected office, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
