A Hawaiian woman will forfeit $3 million after she pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to violating U.S. lobbying laws as part of an attempt by a foreign national effort to get the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the elaborate One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) money-laundering scandal, and to arrange on behalf of a Chinese government minister for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the United States.
Nickie Mali Lum Davis, 45, a consultant living in Honolulu, Hawaii, did not disclose to the federal government that the lobbying effort was done on behalf of fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, who has been charged by the United States in a financial scandal that allegedly left $4.5 billion missing from Malaysia’s 1MDB state investment fund.
