NEW YORK — As former Trump adviser Tom Barrack begins his defense in his ongoing criminal trial on charges that he illegally lobbied Trump's presidential campaign and his subsequent administration on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, his defense team is planning to call former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to testify, government attorneys said Wednesday.
Mnuchin would be the latest high-profile witness to appear in the trial, which has been underway for nearly a month in Brooklyn, New York, after former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified earlier this month.
Prosecutors accuse Barrack, a Los Angeles-based businessman and longtime Trump associate, of acting as a foreign agent for the UAE from 2016 to 2018 yet failing to register with the Department of Justice, which they say constitutes a crime. Barrack's attorneys, who during opening arguments dismissed the government's case as"ridiculous," will now present his defense, which they have indicated will feature numerous witnesses.
"You are the only direct channel to the candidate and no one else," Barrack's UAE contact, Rashid Al Malik, told Barrack in one email regarding Trump. Al Malik is also charged in the case but is currently at large.
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