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By Kenneth P. Vogel
Dec. 12, 2018
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WASHINGTON The special counsels investigation was grinding relentlessly onward, with President Trumps former national security adviser pleading for leniency in his case and his former fixer about to be sentenced for his crimes. But Mr. Trumps personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in Manama, Bahrain, on Tuesday, meeting with the king and the interior minister of an important United States ally in the Middle East.
The government-run Bahrain News Agency featured a photo of Mr. Giuliani meeting in a royal palace with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. The story said the king discussed Bahraini-U. S. relations with Mr. Giuliani, who was described as leading a high-level U.S. delegation.
But Mr. Giuliani was not in Bahrain, a country with a record of human rights abuses, on official business. He was there to seek a lucrative security consulting contract with the government.
The trip was part of a concerted push Mr. Giuliani has undertaken in the last few weeks to win business from governments around the world including in Africa and South America for a firm he owns called Giuliani Security and Safety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/politics/giuliani-consulting-abroad.html
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)According to a cursory search, the United States doesn't have an extradition treaty with Bahrain.
WheelWalker
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(70,740 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)Did you submit a FARA declaration as required by law when you conspired to kidnap Gulen the exiled Turkish cleric, Rudy?