NEW YORK — Tom Barrack was grilled by a federal prosecutor over a 2016 text message he sent to a friend who teased him about his work for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
“I am running for the money,” Barrack wrote.
The Colony Capital LLC founder faced an aggressive cross-examination Thursday in his trial on charges that he sought to influence U.S. policy as an unregistered agent for the United Arab Emirates. Prosecutor Samuel Nitze used the text to challenge Barrack’s earlier testimony that advice he gave the Trump campaign and administration wasn’t motivated by potential UAE sovereign wealth investments.
