Overview
- The newly surfaced police video, obtained by The Newsground and published Thursday, shows officers detaining Zach Witkoff outside Miami nightclub E11even and telling him to stop dropping names.
- An arrest affidavit says an officer found a clear plastic bag of suspected cocaine in Witkoff’s pocket during the Jan. 1, 2022 incident, while the footage captures him denying wrongdoing.
- Miami-Dade court records show prosecutors later dropped the felony cocaine charge and a resisting count, and the case did not go to trial.
- Witkoff, who leads the Trump-family–linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial, told The Independent he was deeply embarrassed and called the episode an isolated mistake.
- World Liberty Financial faces a lawsuit from billionaire Justin Sun alleging fraud and severe distress, claims Witkoff has rejected as meritless, and some commentary has questioned oversight given his family and political ties.