Just Who Is Elliott Broidy, Anyway?

Broidy resigned as chairman of Markstone Capital Group, the little-known firm that got him into hot water, and agreed to forfeit $18 million to New York, the same amount that Markstone charged the New York State Common Pension Fund.

“Broidy paid nearly a million dollars in bribes to get a quarter billion dollar investment,” according to a statement from Cuomo. According to the attorney general, Broidy acknowledged that he “funneled $300,000 to “Chooch” (the generally unseen movie that has been previously cited in the scandal), entered a “sham consulting agreement,” and paid over $90,000 to the girlfriend of a high-ranking official in the New York comptroller’s office, among other things.