Daily Beast says “shady” agreements with El Gindy denied Breitbart press credentials

Breitbart News cutting “shady” agreements with El Gindy? A former Breitbart News writer alleges the site was acting as an illegal influence operation for its Washington DC landlord, Egyptian MP Moustafa El Gindy, according to an exclusive piece from The Daily Beast. Reports emerged last August that El Gindy owns Breitbart’s DC headquarters, which El Gindy says was rented out by his tourism company and had nothing to do with Trump’s presidential campaign. The relationship with El Gindy is allegedly why Breitbart was denied permanent congressional press credentials. A US Department of Justice complaint alleges Breitbart was paying El Gindy below-market rental rates which, if true, would amount to in-kind payments “and, taken with friendly coverage of El Gindy, could be seen as payments from a foreign government official in exchange for supportive media coverage.” Other Breitbart writers say the relationship between El Gindy and Breitbart is not entirely clear.