Thomas Barrack, one of the top fund-raisers and chairman of Trump's 2017 inaugural fund for Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2016 has been indicted on charges of violating a law governing lobbyists for foreign interests. 

Barrack has been accused of advancing interests of the UAE and of influencing the foreign policy positions of Trump’s 2016 campaign, and then the foreign policy positions of the U.S. government during Trump’s presidency through April 2018.