Trump money dude arrested for what appears to be close to treason?

maybe I'm wrong about treason, I suppose we are not at war with the Saudis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/thomas-barrack-trump-indicted.html

July 20, 2021Updated 5:21 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a close friend of former President Donald J. Trump and one of his top 2016 campaign fund-raisers, was arrested in California on Tuesday morning on federal charges of failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.

A seven-count indictment accused Mr. Barrack, 74, of using his access to Mr. Trump to advance the foreign policy goals of the United Arab Emirates and then lying about his activities during a June 2019 interview with federal agents.

Federal prosecutors said that Mr. Barrack used his position as an outside adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign to publicly promote the U.A.E.’s agenda while soliciting direction, feedback and talking points from senior U.A.E. officials.

After Mr. Trump was elected, the indictment said, Mr. Barrack continued to try to influence the administration policies in favor of the U.A.E. At one point, he told senior U.A.E. officials to give him a “wish list” of foreign policy moves they wanted Washington to take within the first 100 days, first six months, first year and by the end of Mr. Trump’s term, prosecutors said.

Matthew Grimes, a former top executive at Mr. Barrack’s company, and Rashid al-Malik Alshahhi, an Emirati businessman who is close to the U.A.E. rulers, were also charged with acting as agents of the U.A.E. without registering with the Justice Department, as required.

Department officials said that the three men conspired to abuse Mr. Barrack’s access to Mr. Trump, his campaign and his administration from early 2016 to early 2018. Mr. Trump, they said, was one of those who were betrayed by Mr. Barrack’s hidden allegiance to a foreign government.

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Mr. Barrack’s real estate and private equity firm, Colony Capital, benefited from substantial investments from Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., countries that are closely aligned. In the three years after Mr. Trump became the Republican Party’s nominee for president in July 2016, Colony Capital received about $1.5 billion from those two Persian Gulf countries through investments or other transactions. Of that, about $474 million came from sovereign wealth funds controlled by their governments.

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