2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One week after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Imaad Zuberi, an American venture capitalist and longtime Democratic donor, began piling tens of thousands of dollars into Republican coffers. It was a dramatic shift for Zuberi, who embraced Democrats as his entrée into Washington, serving as a major donor on fundraising committees for Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. To gain access to the incoming regime, Zuberi made a $900,000 donation to Trump’s inaugural committee through his company Avenue Ventures LLC. That donation has now entangled Zuberi in a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan who have launched a wide-ranging probe into the finances around the inauguration. On Monday [2-4-19], prosecutors with the US attorney’s office in Manhattan subpoenaed the inaugural committee for any documents and communications it had with Zuberi and his company. He was the only individual singled out in the subpoena, which also sought the identities of all donors, benefits they received, communications about donations from foreign nationals, and payments to vendors.”
–Kara Scannell and Marshall Cohen, “A big Democratic donor turned his money to Trump. Now investigators turn to him.,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, February 6, 2019 7:50 pm