Tom Barrack, the chair of former US President Donald Trump's inaugural committee who faces charges he secretly worked as an agent for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump´s foreign policy, was ordered released from jail Friday on $250 million bail, reported The Associated Press.

Barrack, 74, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles near where he lives, was among three men charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with conspiring to influence US policy on the UAE's behalf during Trump's 2016 campaign and while he was president.

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