Paolo Zampolli, the special representative for global partnerships appointed by Donald Trump on 11 March 2025, sold United Nations diplomatic passports at $250,000 each through a group that included the former General Assembly president John Ashe, his former partner Amanda Ungaro said in an interview broadcast on 23 August. Accreditation as a diplomat carries immunity from arrest and from search of the holder's person, residence and baggage under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Ungaro, 41, spoke in Portuguese to the Brazilian journalist Hildegard Angel in a livestream carried on YouTube, seated beside her husband, a fugitive from a Florida criminal trial. "They ran diplomatic passport schemes, selling them," she said of the group she says Zampolli belonged to.

Angel put the interview out on 23 August and Brasil 247 published a transcript of it. No corroboration for the passport allegation has been produced by Ungaro or found by any outlet that has examined it, this one included. Ungaro said in the interview that she had handed documents to Senate investigators covering roughly three decades of alleged corruption and abuse. Reporting by the Miami Herald on 28 August established a different point of contact, with the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and has been releasing estate records and Justice Department files since 2025. No committee in either chamber has confirmed receiving anything from her.

Zampolli has denied wrongdoing at every stage. "I never had any personal engagement with Mr. Epstein," he told Newsweek on 25 April. "It was part of the New York scene, that's it." On Ungaro he said: "Let's invent something more, that's what this has become." Epstein emails released to the House Oversight Committee and FBI proffer notes taken in July 2019 describe repeated business contact between the two men.

A sworn petition Zampolli filed himself in New York Supreme Court on 17 July 2019 sets out a passport trade of his own, in numbers, with named counterparties and a bank account in Geneva. Nothing in it concerns diplomatic passports and nothing in it names Ashe. It describes 800 economic citizenships sold at $225,000 each, gross income of about $195 million and a commission of 5 per cent that Zampolli said he had never been paid.

The Epstein record

Epstein emails released to the House Oversight Committee place Zampolli inside Epstein's business circle rather than his social periphery. The American Prospect, reporting on 23 April 2026, found messages from 10 and 11 February 2010, six months after Epstein left prison, in which Epstein and the financier David Stern worked on buying the broadcaster FashionTV, with Epstein directing the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel to approach the channel's founder Michel Adam Lisowski. The bid collapsed, and Epstein wrote that the company looked too expensive and a bit odd. Zampolli and Epstein had also discussed buying Elite Models after its 2004 bankruptcy and failed in that bid.

Adriana Mucinska, a model signed to Zampolli's ID Model Management, later worked as Epstein's scheduler before his 2008 conviction. FBI proffer notes taken in July 2019 identify Zampolli as her agent, and paragraphs of those notes that mention him are marked subject to a protective order. Zampolli said of Mucinska: "I remember that girl, I don't even remember. She was one of them, we have so many models." His agency has represented numerous international talents, he said in a later text, and "any implication of involvement, collaboration, or endorsement is categorically rejected". Zampolli also partnered with Ghislaine Maxwell on the TerraMar Project, the ocean conservation vehicle she promoted at the UN from 2013.

Brunel was found dead in La Santé prison in Paris on 19 February 2022 while awaiting trial on charges of raping children and trafficking women and girls to Epstein. French authorities ruled the death a suicide. French prosecutors reopened an investigation into Epstein's associates, Brunel among them, in February 2026.

Londrina, Paris, New York

Ungaro left Londrina in Paraná at 13 to model, working through São Paulo, Milan, Germany, Japan and South Korea before signing with Karin Models in Paris in 2002. Jean-Luc Brunel took her on there and introduced her to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

"I travelled on Jeffrey's plane because I had to do a job in New York," Ungaro said of the flight from Paris in June 2002, when she was 17. She counted about 30 girls on board and put many of them at 14 to 16. "They looked more like students than models," she said. Brunel offered her drugs repeatedly during the flight and she refused, she said. Zampolli told Newsweek in April: "I met Amanda in New York when she was 19. Now they say she was 15. The distortion of the information is out of control."

Ungaro signed to ID Models, the agency Zampolli founded in New York, within months of arriving. Their relationship began the same year. They had a son, split in 2018, separated finally in 2021 and fought over custody in New York Supreme Court, and Zampolli disputes that they ever married.

"It is a scheme of selling diplomatic passports for $250,000," Ungaro said of the group she says Zampolli belonged to. She named Ashe as part of it and said Chinese nationals involved in the same scheme killed him. She gave no names, no dates, no documents and no other specifics.

Zampolli sexually abused her and was violent towards her during the relationship, Ungaro said in the same interview. Zampolli has denied all of her allegations and has not been charged with any offence against her.

Dupont Circle, 15 July 2026

Zampolli invited Andrew and Tristan Tate to his summer gathering in Dupont Circle on 15 July 2026, an event Axios reported drew about 150 guests including officials from the Justice, State and Treasury departments. He took the brothers on to the Ned, a private members' club a few streets from the White House, where a club source said they spent most of the evening smoking cigars outside. US marshals arrested them in Miami on 18 July.

Andrew Tate, 39, and Tristan Tate, 38, were held on a United Kingdom extradition request carrying 38 charges, which took their combined total to 59 counts alongside the Romanian indictments returned in 2023. The Romanian case charges rape, human trafficking and the trafficking of a minor. The UK request charges rape and trafficking, child rape media, which the charge sheet calls indecent images of a child, material prosecuted as extreme pornography, and evasion of about £21 million in tax. Both men deny every charge, both are contesting extradition and neither has been convicted of anything. Romanian prosecutors charged both men in 2023, and those charges had been reported worldwide for three years when the invitations went out.

Zampolli said he had not known who his guests were. "Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know how famous they were," he said. Asked why he had invited them, he said: "Why would I do that? This was a summer gathering." The brothers were in the city "having some business meetings", he said.

Wesley Hunt, the Republican who holds Texas's 38th district and was one of three Texas Republicans in Congress to endorse Trump early in his 2024 campaign, met the Tates in his congressional office on 14 July, the day before the party, and posed for a photograph with them that circulated afterwards. A person in Hunt's office said he "was beyond excited to meet with them". Hunt ran third in the Texas Senate primary on 3 March and endorsed Ken Paxton on 20 May, the day after Trump did. "President Donald Trump has made his position unmistakably clear in the Texas Senate race, he is fully backing Attorney General Ken Paxton, and SO AM I," Hunt wrote. A State Department source told the Daily Beast that Zampolli routinely comes into conflict with the department's leadership, who are embarrassed by him.

Alina Habba, then Trump's lawyer and later a counsellor to the president, told Andrew Tate "I got your back" on a podcast on 10 January 2025. Dana White, the UFC president, greeted the brothers at an event in March 2025. Donald Trump Jr took part in a livestream with Andrew Tate in June 2024. Vice-President JD Vance follows both brothers on X, and Richard Grenell discussed them with Romanian officials, NPR reported on 12 August. Asked about pressure on Romania on the brothers' behalf, Trump said: "I know nothing about that."

Trump appointed Zampolli to the Kennedy Center board of trustees in 2020, and reporting in July 2026 still described him as a member of the board Trump reconstituted and chairs. Marco Rubio, the Republican former Florida senator Trump made secretary of state, declined to intervene in the extradition. "The U.S. has an extradition treaty with the U.K. and the admin intends to honor it in this case," a senior administration official said, and a State Department official said Rubio had not spoken to the Tate brothers or their lawyers.

The document he filed himself

Zampolli's petition, brought through his New York lawyer Robert Hantman, sought pre-arbitration discovery against the developer Range Developments and a list of connected parties: Range Partners (Dominica) Limited, Range Capital Partners (Dominica) Limited, Range International Consultants, the principals Mohammed Asaria and Kamal Shehada, the construction contractor NH.TT, the hotel operator Kempinski Hotels S.A. and its chief executive Xavier Destribats.

An accord signed on 7 May 2015 entitled him to 5 per cent of the development profit on the Cabrits Resort and Spa Kempinski, a 151-room hotel on Dominica's north coast, in return for bringing the project forward, the petition says. The resort was financed through the island's citizenship by investment programme, the arrangement under which a foreign buyer purchases a stake in an approved development and receives a Dominica passport at the end of it.

Asaria and Shehada took roughly $30 million in distributions from an account in Geneva while paying him nothing and supplying no accounting, Zampolli said in the affidavit. He told the court he was concerned about "foreign bank accounts" and "tax havens where funds disappear".

Eight hundred sales at $225,000 come to $180 million, some $15 million short of the $195 million the petition puts as gross income, and Dominica's own published charges are the obvious candidates for the difference: $25,000 in processing fees for a single applicant on the real estate route, $35,000 for a family of up to four, $50,000 for a family of up to six, plus due diligence charges of $7,500 for a main applicant and $4,000 for each dependant aged 16 or over. The New Today, a Grenadian paper that read the same filing, reported the unit price as $220,000 for a family passport rather than $225,000. Dominica News Online put Zampolli's claimed commission at $7.5 million, while the decision of Justice Eileen A. Rakower quotes him claiming a sum "in excess of over US$5 million". Neither figure is 5 per cent of $195 million, which would be $9.75 million, because the accord attaches to development profit rather than to gross sales, and the petition never states what the profit was.

Rakower granted the petition in October 2019 only so far as ordering Range Capital Partners (Dominica) Limited to produce books, records and documents under a subpoena duces tecum within 30 days of service. She denied the rest, including depositions of the other respondents and a stay of the London arbitration that Range Capital Markets (Dominica) Limited had begun against Zampolli on 5 May 2019. The court accepted that the documents were required "in order to present a proper case in arbitration".

Lennox Linton, then leader of the opposition United Workers' Party, put the filing's figures to work inside the island's "Where De Money Gone" campaign, telling voters that Range's principals and Zampolli stood to collect EC$183 million between them from a programme sold to the public as national development while local hoteliers went unassisted. Anthony Astaphan, senior counsel acting for the government of Roosevelt Skerrit, the Dominica Labour Party leader who has been prime minister since 2004, said no allegation in the petition was directed at any government official.

What Dominica sells, and to whom

Dominica's citizenship by investment programme is lawful, and what it issues is an ordinary national passport rather than a diplomatic one. Buying a Dominica passport for $200,000 through an approved resort is a commercial transaction under statute. A diplomatic accreditation carrying immunity from arrest and search is not a product the programme offers at any price, and no part of Zampolli's filing concerns one.

An OCCRP investigation published on 11 October 2023, based on leaked government records and carried out with the Government Accountability Project and more than a dozen media partners, counted about 7,700 people who bought Dominica citizenship and roughly $775 million raised for the government between 2009 and 2021. Among the buyers the reporters identified were the former Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid, a nuclear scientist who had worked for Saddam Hussein, a colonel under Muammar Gaddafi, two Russian billionaires later placed under sanctions and a future governor of Iraq's central bank. At least 30 buyers were subsequently investigated, charged or convicted somewhere, and nearly a dozen became fugitives, among them the Indian businessman Prateek Vijay Gupta, wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation over public sector bank loans, and Danhong Chen of California, who obtained Dominica citizenship in the same month she was indicted for immigration fraud.

Skerrit called the reporting propaganda and said the vetting was multi-layered and handled by top-rated due diligence agencies in the United Kingdom and the United States. The UK government had already revoked visa-free access for Dominica passport holders in July 2023, citing what it called clear and evident abuse, the absence of a residency requirement and rules that let holders change their names.

The International Monetary Fund put Dominica's citizenship revenues at about $232 million in the 2022/23 fiscal year, equal to 37 per cent of gross domestic product and up more than seven percentage points in a year. Its 2024 Article IV consultation warned that the island's primary fiscal balance sits in deficit once the passport income is stripped out, and that the government publishes too little on where the money goes.

Magnus Brunner, the European commissioner for home affairs, wrote to five Eastern Caribbean governments on 25 June 2026 asking them to end their citizenship programmes by 1 June 2028 or face suspension of visa-free access to the Schengen area. The letters went to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia. They set September 2026 for interim measures including the exclusion of anyone under EU sanctions and tighter vetting of all nationalities. Gaston Browne, the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party leader and prime minister, said his programme "will continue" and that his government would not be pressured into a unilateral phase-out. The European Commission's position, set out to the Caribbean states, is that operating a citizenship by investment scheme is in itself a ground for suspension.

The trade in diplomatic accreditation

Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit filmed Oliver Seraphin, Dominica's prime minister from June 1979 to July 1980 and later a Dominica Labour Party leader, offering to broker an ambassadorship in Asia for $470,000, in a report published on 27 November 2019. Seraphin later said he had not discussed any such proposal and had been name-dropping to impress. The same investigation reported that Skerrit had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars towards his 2014 campaign from the Iranian businessman Alireza Monfared in exchange for a diplomatic passport and a posting to Malaysia. A witness, Manoj Bullah, said: "Without that money, Ali would not have gotten his diplomatic passport." Skerrit denied the account.

Monfared's Dominica diplomatic passport was issued in March 2015 and revoked in 2016, according to the leaked records OCCRP examined. Iranian authorities took him back in 2017 and a court in Tehran sentenced him in November 2019 to 20 years over the embezzlement of more than $1 billion in sanctioned oil revenues. His son Mehdi now works as a broker selling Caribbean citizenship.

Eric Resteiner, a US conman, told the Al Jazeera investigation he handed Keith Mitchell, the New National Party leader then serving as Grenada's prime minister, half a million dollars in cash for an ambassador at large post. Mitchell said he had received $15,000 towards travel expenses.

Article 8 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides that members of a mission's diplomatic staff should in principle hold the nationality of the sending state. Zampolli, born in Milan on 5 March 1970 and described in his own New York petition as a US citizen, was named minister-counsellor at Dominica's UN mission in 2011 and Dominica's ambassador for oceans and seas in October 2013. Mitchell appointed Ungaro, a Brazilian citizen, Grenada's UN ambassador for youth affairs in June 2014, and she sat in sessions on the International Criminal Court and on nuclear non-proliferation. Zampolli used her diplomatic tax exemptions for personal purchases, Ungaro said in the 23 August interview, a claim no document has been produced to support.

What the immunity blocks

Article 29 of the same treaty makes the person of a diplomatic agent inviolable and provides that he shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. Article 30 extends the same protection to his private residence, his papers, his correspondence and his property. Article 31 grants immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state and provides that a diplomatic agent is not obliged to give evidence as a witness. Article 36 exempts his personal baggage from inspection unless there are serious grounds for presuming it contains prohibited articles, and any inspection must be carried out in his presence. Article 37 gives the same privileges to members of his family forming part of his household. Article 32 leaves waiver of all of it in the hands of the sending state, which in a sold accreditation is the state that took the money.

The US Government Accountability Office counted 42 allegations of household workers abused by foreign diplomats in the United States between 2000 and 2008, in a report published in July 2008 that said the real number was probably higher because the workers are isolated inside the residence. About 3,500 visas a year are issued to domestic staff brought in by diplomats and international officials. Four women from the Philippines and Indonesia sued the Qatari diplomat Essa Mohamed Al Mannai in the US District Court in Washington on 25 March 2011, alleging forced labour and sexual assault and wages as low as 55 cents an hour against a promised $7.25. Diplomatic immunity was raised against the claim. The residence in which the work is done cannot be entered, the employer cannot be arrested and he cannot be compelled to give evidence. The State Department began requiring pre-issuance alerts on A-3 and G-5 visas in October 2009 where an employer had a prior allegation against him.

Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian transport minister living in exile in London, was drugged and sealed into a wooden crate at Stansted airport on 4 July 1984 for shipment to Lagos, alongside an anaesthetist hired to keep him alive in transit. Customs officers opened the crate because it did not carry the external markings that Article 27 requires of a diplomatic bag. Article 27 also provides that a properly marked diplomatic bag shall not be opened or detained, so correct paperwork would have carried the crate through Stansted uninspected.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and ProPublica published Shadow Diplomats on 14 November 2022, the work of 160 journalists in 46 countries, identifying at least 500 current and former honorary consuls accused of crimes or caught up in scandal. The accusations included arms trafficking, drug trafficking, cash and contraband smuggling and terror financing, and the reporting documented consuls invoking their credentials to avoid searches and arrests. Seventy-eight countries do not publish the names of the honorary consuls they appoint.

Jeffrey Epstein held no diplomatic accreditation. Nothing in the released files, the Southern District of New York's charging documents or the House Oversight Committee's estate records shows Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell travelling on a diplomatic passport, and Ungaro's allegation concerns sales by Zampolli rather than any use by Epstein. The aircraft Ungaro says she boarded in Paris in 2002 was Epstein's private plane.

What Ashe was actually charged with

Ashe, permanent representative of Antigua and Barbuda and president of the 68th General Assembly, was indicted in October 2015 on charges of taking more than $1 million in bribes. Six others were charged with him. What the money bought in that case was a UN document.

Ng Lap Seng, the Macau billionaire and Sun Kian Ip Group chairman who paid the money, wanted UN backing for a multibillion-dollar conference centre in Macau intended to host the annual Global South-South Development Expo. In February 2012 Ashe and the Dominican Republic's deputy UN ambassador Francis Lorenzo submitted a document to the Secretary-General supporting the centre. More than a year later they revised it to name Ng's company as a project partner, and the Secretary-General circulated the revision as an official General Assembly document.

Ng paid Ashe through an account set up for General Assembly presidency expenses and through a no-show consultancy for Ashe's wife at South-South News, the Ng-funded outlet he had installed Lorenzo to run. A jury convicted Ng on 27 July 2017, after a five-week trial, on two counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, one count of paying bribes and gratuities, one count of money laundering and two conspiracy counts. Judge Vernon Broderick, an Obama appointee to the Southern District of New York, sentenced him on 11 May 2018 to 48 months in prison, three years of supervised release, a $1 million fine and $1.5 million in forfeiture. Broderick also ordered restitution of the UN's legal fees. Lorenzo pleaded guilty to bribery. The accountant Jeff C. Yin was sentenced to seven months, Shiwei Yan to 20 months and Heidi Hong Piao also pleaded guilty. "Billionaire Ng Lap Seng corrupted the highest levels of the United Nations in pursuit of a multibillion-dollar real estate deal," the then Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said. The charges against Ashe were dismissed when he died.

The death at Dobbs Ferry

Ashe died at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, on 22 June 2016, aged 61. Kunjlata Ashar, the Westchester County medical examiner, found the cause was traumatic asphyxia with fractures of the larynx, sustained when a barbell dropped on his neck during a bench press, and ruled the death accidental.

A UN spokesman told reporters in the first 24 hours that Ashe had died of a heart attack, an account drawn from Antigua and from a former colleague and corrected roughly a day later. Murder theories have grown in the space between those two statements ever since.

An earlier telling held that Ashe died the day before he was to testify against Hillary Clinton. Snopes traced it to a fabricated post on whatdoesitmean.com and rated it false, and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said no part of Ashe's case concerned Clinton and that only routine pre-trial meetings were scheduled in the days after his death. Ungaro's version replaces Clinton with unnamed Chinese nationals said to have been part of the passport scheme, and she offered no other specifics. Nothing in the medical examiner's finding, the indictment or the trial record supports it.

Melania Trump's denial

Melania Trump held a rare event at the White House on 9 April 2026, days after Ungaro tagged her account in a series of posts. "I am going to bring down your corrupt system, even if it is the last thing I do in my life," Ungaro wrote. "Maybe you should be afraid of what I know, of who you are and who your husband is." "The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today," the first lady said. She said she had never been friends with Epstein, was not his victim, had never boarded his plane or visited his island, and that Epstein did not introduce her to her husband. Ungaro said she then received a letter from Melania Trump's lawyers threatening a defamation suit unless she apologised. A spokesman for the first lady told the New York Times that she "has no knowledge of, nor involvement in, the personal affairs of Mr. Zampolli and Ms. Ungaro".

A former Epstein assistant told the FBI in July 2019, under a proffer agreement, that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump. The Justice Department released the interview record in February 2026 alongside a warning that its Epstein files may include fake or falsely submitted material. The statement is the assistant's account, not Epstein's. Zampolli has said for decades that he made the introduction himself, at a party in New York in September 1998, having sponsored Melania Knauss's US work visa two years earlier.

ICE, a custody fight and a missing defendant

The New York Times reported on 20 March 2026 that Zampolli contacted the ICE official David Venturella, who called the agency's Miami field office to arrange Ungaro's collection and said during that call that the case mattered to someone close to the White House. Zampolli told the paper: "I asked David what was going on because I did not know the process." He also said: "Honestly, I was worried about my 15-year-old boy. Did I pull favors? No. Was she illegal? That's for them to decide." The two were fighting over custody of their son Giovanni. The Department of Homeland Security said any suggestion Ungaro was arrested and removed for political reasons or favours was false.

Ungaro and her husband, the Brazilian doctor João Batista Cunha de Araújo, were arrested in June 2025 over an unlicensed cosmetic clinic in Aventura, Florida, uncovered by an undercover sting in which an officer was offered liposuction and buttock injections. She faced seven charges and he faced 14, of which 13 were felonies. Both pleaded not guilty. Ungaro was taken into ICE custody, held in Miami and then in Louisiana, and deported to Brazil in October 2025 after three and a half months in detention. "Police came into our house at six in the morning and threw me into the corridor in my pyjamas," Ungaro said of the arrest. She said the Louisiana facility held 122 three-tier bunk beds on a permanently wet floor with no daylight, that she spent four days there before deportation without seeing the sun, and that she saw women in their eighties in wheelchairs with their feet shackled.

Araújo's ankle monitor generated a tamper alert on 1 August 2026, three days before his trial was due to start on 4 August. Officers found neither him nor the monitor at his address in Bay Harbor Islands. He had surrendered his Brazilian passport under court order and Judge Tanya Brinkley had refused his request to return to Brazil before trial. He is now in Brazil, and sat beside Ungaro for the 23 August interview.

Section 101 of Dominica's constitution permits parliament to authorise the acquisition of citizenship by people who would not otherwise qualify, and sections 8 and 9 of the Citizenship Act 1978 provide for the naturalisation certificates the programme issues. Selling economic citizenship is lawful. The 800 sales counted in Zampolli's petition, the $195 million they raised and the 5 per cent introduction fee he says he was promised are all conduct a statute allows. He brought that case as the plaintiff, no authority has charged anyone in connection with it, and it ended in a London arbitration and a discovery order for company records.

Zampolli held the 5 per cent interest while sitting as Dominica's accredited diplomat at the United Nations, a post he took in 2011 and still described as his own in the 2019 filing. Dominica's Integrity in Public Office Act governs conflicts of that kind. No authority on the island has ruled on whether a serving diplomat taking a share of profit from a project financed by the state's own citizenship sales falls inside it, and no complaint appears to have been brought.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 78dd-1 and following, makes it an offence for a US person to pay a foreign official corruptly to obtain or retain business. Money paid to a Caribbean official personally in exchange for an ambassadorship or a diplomatic passport is bribery under that country's own law, and it can reach the FCPA where a US person and a business purpose are involved. Appointing a foreigner as a diplomat breaks nothing on its own. Article 8 of the Vienna Convention says diplomatic staff should in principle hold the sending state's nationality, and Article 8(3) leaves it to the receiving state to decide whether to reserve a right of consent over nationals of a third state. Ungaro alleges the sale of the credential itself at $250,000, which if proven would be a crime in the state that sold it. She has produced no document for it, no prosecutor has confirmed an investigation, and Zampolli denies it.

Ng Lap Seng is the only person a court has convicted in connection with any of these events. A jury found that his money bought UN backing and Judge Broderick imposed 48 months. What the money bought there was a General Assembly document.

Article I, Section 9 of the US constitution bars any person holding an office of profit or trust under the United States from accepting an office or title from a foreign state without the consent of Congress. Zampolli took his State Department post on 11 March 2025. Whether he relinquished his Dominica accreditation, and on what date, is not established by any public record found for this article, and no request for Congressional consent has been identified.

Zampolli's post at the State Department is one of the special envoy, representative and coordinator positions that carry no requirement of Senate advice and consent, as the Congressional Research Service sets out in report R44946. No confirmation hearing has examined the Caribbean accreditations he has held since 2011, the resort financed by 800 passport sales, the London arbitration or the July 2019 FBI proffer notes that name him under a protective order.

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