The mysterious Trumpworld fixer George Nader, who was turned cooperating witness in the Mueller investigation earlier this year, was the subject of another strange chapter on Wednesday evening in The New York Times, which reveals how Nader allegedly worked with a key Republican National Committee official to ferry Saudi and Emirati influence into the White House. Robert Mueller, as we know, has been examining the influence of foreign money on the Trump campaign and administration—an investigation that led him to Nader, a well-known, if somewhat fringe figure in some Washington circles, who currently serves as an adviser to Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and who was involved in coordinating a pre-inaugural meeting between representatives for the U.A.E., Trump emissary Erik Prince, and a Russian investor with close ties to Vladimir Putin. (Prince has said the meeting was serendipitous and that he was not representing Trump.) Nader, who has taken an immunity deal with Mueller, also attended a separate December 2016 Trump Tower meeting with the crown prince, Jared Kushner, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

As the Times reports, Nader’s reach also extended into the White House after the inauguration. According to hundreds of pages of leaked documents, Nader sought to cultivate Elliott Broidy, the deputy finance chairman of the R.N.C., to help him influence the Trump White House on behalf of the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. On his to-do list was encouraging the ouster of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who had butted heads with Kushner over the Gulf nations’ blockade of Qatar before his summary dismissal earlier this month.

Among the inducements Nader reportedly offered Broidy was a $2.7 million payment for “consulting, marketing, and other advisory services rendered” and the prospect of more than $1 billion in contracts for Circinus, Broidy’s private security company, with Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. In return, Nader urged Broidy to encourage Trump to meet with the crown prince in a “quiet” location outside the White House—an idea that was ultimately scrubbed by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster—and to advocate for firing Tillerson “at a politically convenient time.” (Nader’s lawyer declined the Times’s request for comment, while Broidy said in a statement that his efforts “aimed to strengthen the national security of the United States, in full coordination with the U.S. government.” A spokesperson for Broidy added that the R.N.C. official believes the documents were stolen by hackers working for the Qatari government.)

The possibility that Nader and Broidy were working in concert to push the Trump administration toward policies favored by the Saudis and Emiratis comes as Kushner’s ties to the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are also under scrutiny. Since Trump ascended to the Oval Office, Kushner has worked to forge a strong relationship with Prince Mohammed, ostensibly as the two pursue their shared goal of ending the Israel-Palestine conflict. On Wednesday, the Intercept reported that the Saudi prince bragged about his ties to Kushner and claimed that he has the president’s son-in-law “in his pocket.” The two are said to have grown close during Trump’s inaugural overseas trip to Saudi Arabia; when Kushner took another, unannounced trip to Riyadh in October, they reportedly “stayed up until nearly 4 A.M. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy.” According to sources who spoke to the Intercept, Prince Mohammed told confidants that while he was in Riyadh, Kushner—whose access to classified briefings was recently revoked by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly—provided him a list of names of individuals that were disloyal to him, cribbed from the President’s Daily Brief. (A representative for Kushner denied this, calling the story “so obviously false and ridiculous” that it “merit[ed] no response.”) A week later, Prince Mohammed led what he characterized as an anti-corruption crackdown, in which the Saudi government arrested and imprisoned dozens of members of the Saudi royal family, several of whom were reportedly listed in the Daily Brief. (The Saudi Embassy did not respond to a request for comment from the Intercept.)