FARA is a disclosure statute that seeks to ensure that all persons acting politically or quasi-politically on behalf of foreign entities in the United States properly disclose their activities to the U.S. government. In...more
5/13/2021
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has named a new leader of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) unit within the DOJ’s National Security Division. According to news reports, Jennifer Kennedy Gellie, a career federal...more
On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a complaint charging Iranian-born U.S. green card holder Kaveh Afrasiabi with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent for Iran in...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) is adding the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). According to the final rule recently published in the Federal Register,...more
As yet another example of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) increasing enforcement efforts with respect to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), DOJ recently unsealed a charge of conspiracy to violate FARA...more
10/26/2020
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Criminal Conspiracy ,
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