It's starting to look like Broidy made the pay off for Trump in a quid pro quo deal.
On November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group. On December 5th, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. (Bechard fired Davidson shortly afterward, when she became convinced that Davidson was actually working in concert with Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, to protect Cohen’s client’s interests rather than hers.) That $200,000 was supposed to be the first of eight quarterly payments that “David Dennison” agreed to make to Bechard, in order to buy her silence about an affair and a subsequent abortion. All this was laid out in an NDA recovered from Michael Cohen’s office when it was raided last month.
On December 2, two days after the first payment was wired, Broidy and Trump had a meeting was about consulting contracts, according to Broidy’s own correspondence. A few days later, Broidy got his payoff. The U.A.E. awarded his company a deal worth up to $600 million over the next five years.
It is important to keep in mind that the only hard evidence for Broidy’s claim that his payoff to Bechard wasn’t actually a straight-up bribe of the president of the United States continues to be Broidy’s own assertions. Broidy has a history of bribing public officials to further his business interests and was convicted of this in 2009. He even made payments to the mistress of a politician he was bribing.
