Mueller ends era of impunity for foreign lobbyists
Washington’s unregistered foreign agents, who in the past have tread the gray areas between legal and illegal with impunity, should be nervous about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Most Americans focus on the former FBI director’s probe into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russians in 2016. Yet many of Mueller’s indictments, to date, revolve around a rarely enforced law that requires the lawyers, lobbyists and public relations specialists hired by foreign powers to register with the Justice Department.
For decades, the department didn’t waste too many resources on catching violators of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. Those days however appear to be over.
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