Attorneys for Thomas Barrack, the chairman of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against him in Brooklyn federal court, arguing that the government waited too long to bring its case after gathering evidence.

Barrack’s attorney, O’Melveny & Myers partner Daniel M. Petrocelli, argued that the “government had all the evidence on which the indictment was based in 2019,” two years before Barrack was arrested and charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government, the United Arab Emirates, without notifying the attorney general and other offenses in July 2021.

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