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Val Broeksmit as seen in a file photo taken on
April 27, 2006 in New York City.
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Federal Informant in Trump Investigation
Found Dead


By Jack Phillips
April 28, 2022
Updated: April 28, 2022



A federal informant who worked with federal authorities investigating links between
former President Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank was found dead in Los Angeles
on Monday, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said Val Broeksmit was pronounced dead
at 7 a.m., Sgt. Rudy Perez of the Los Angeles School Police Department told local
media. Los Angeles Police Captain Kenneth Cabrera told the Los Angeles Times that
officials don’t suspect foul play in his death.

Perez added that it appears that Broeksmit, 46, was homeless. The coroner’s office
did not elaborate on his cause of death, according to local outlets.

Broeksmit was last seen driving a red Mini Cooper in April 2021 on Riverside Drive,
according to Los Angeles police. He was later reported missing by his relatives.

A 2019 New York Times report said that Broeksmit was the son of a Deutsche Bank
executive who died via suicide in 2014. Later in 2019, Broeksmit told the Forensic
News Network that he acquired emails of his late father, Bill Broeksmit, and said that
“I informed the FBI” about several of Deutsche Bank’s loans to Trump.

While speaking to the outlet at the time, Broeksmit, who was born in Ukraine, said he
spoke to the Department of Justice in 2016 and said, “I’m writing in hopes of speaking
to someone at the DOJ in reference to the evidence I have showing major fraud at one
of the World’s largest banks.”

Reports also indicated that Broeksmit allegedly provided documents to journalists and
Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS was notably hired by a law firm that was hired by the Clinton
campaign in 2016, which, in turn, hired former UK spy Christopher Steele to concoct the
infamous and discredited “Steele dossier” against Trump.

Forensic News Network journalist Scott Stedman reacted to Broeksmit’s death, writing
on Twitter: “I don’t suspect foul play. Val struggled with drugs on and off.”

Despite having been reported missing, Broeksmit’s Twitter verified account apparently
remained active. Broeksmit appeared to have uploaded a photo of himself on April 5.

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee and Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) issued
subpoenas to Broeksmit several times as the panel was targeting Trump during his
presidency. Several years ago, Trump’s son, Eric Trump, said that Democrat lawmakers
who were trying to obtain Trump’s Deutsche Bank records were abusing their power.

“This subpoena is an unprecedented abuse of power and simply the latest attempt by
House Democrats to attack the President and our family for political gain,” he said at
the time, while saying the actions “set a horrible precedent for all taxpayers.”