On December 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) National Security Division issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) and request for public comments regarding clarification and modernization of...more
On this episode, Rob Walker is joined by Dan Pickard and Tessa Capeloto to discuss recent developments as to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), including an ABA task force report on FARA and certain policy...more
On September 24, 2021, the Department of Commerce announced that its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is investigating whether imports of neodymium-ironboron (NdFeB) permanent magnets, or rare earth magnets, undermine...more
9/30/2021
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On June 10, 2021, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia issued an indictment of American entertainer and businessman Prakazrel “Pras” Michel and Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho on 12 counts, including four for...more
According to media reports, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Blue Star Strategies’ work for Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. News of the investigation is consistent with observations that the...more
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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On April 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), which administers an antiboycott law and associated guidelines in response to the Arab League’s boycott of Israel, published an updated list of boycotting...more
On March 31, 2021, President Joe Biden announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, named the “American Jobs Plan.” In addition to seeking upgrades to U.S. highways, bridges, ports, airports, transit systems, and waterways,...more
4/1/2021
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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
China’s Communist Party Central Committee wrapped up its annual plenary session on Thursday. This year’s 5th Plenum is significant because it falls in the last year of the 13th Five Year Plan period of 2016-2020. Party...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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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo called on think tanks and other foreign policy organizations to prominently disclose any funding they receive from foreign governments, including state-owned or state-operated subsidiary...more