Three days before Trump took office for the second time, a former top Obama fundraiser, Frank White Jr., agreed to forfeit $20 million to the U.S. Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative in what might be its last act.
On her first day in office, on February 5, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued 14 directives that included an order to disband Kari, which had recovered billions stolen by dictators, kleptocrats, and their families and inner circles since its launch, in 2010, including $1.4 billion stolen from Malaysia’s 1MDB fund.
