Gay Trump intelligence appointee hid money he took from a corrupt European millionaire

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell speaking with attendees at the 2019 Student Action Summit (Photo by: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons)

Richard Grenell, who now holds a top intelligence position in the Trump administration, didn’t report the money he earned as a “media consultant.”

Richard Grenell — the out gay U.S. ambassador to Germany who Donald Trump recently named as acting director of National Intelligence — has failed to report his past work on behalf of a corrupt and mega-wealthy Moldovan politician named Vladimir Plahotniuc.

As such, Grenell’s actions may have possibly broken a law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a federal law that requires government employees to disclose their work on behalf of foreign politicians.

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Concurrently, former National Security Adviser and U.N. ambassador Susan Rice called Grenell a “hack and a shill” and “one of the most nasty, dishonest people I’ve ever encountered.”

According to the investigative journalism website Pro Publica, Grenell ran a public affairs consulting firm called Capitol Media Partners (CMP) which received more than $5,000 to work as a media consultant for Plahotniuc. Plahotniuc is a mega-wealthy and once influential Moldovan politician who Grenell defended against corruption claims in several August 2016 op-eds for the Washington Examiner and the Washington Times.

Grenell’s op-eds called the corruption allegations against Plahotniuc an…

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