To evade registering as foreign agent, to evade registering at foreign agent, so he is laundering money?
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A foreign agent put together, funneling money through a law firm and to GPS and then to the foreign agent.
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Butina was indicted in July on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
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The lawyers said the law does not ban the act of serving as a foreign agent, but merely bans the failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Ms. Butina, who was indicted Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent, did not register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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"If we're surveilling a foreign agent, which we should be doing if there's reason to believe they're a foreign agent, and there's incidental contact then that's not surveilling the Trump campaign," Graham said.
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Cohen was not charged with acting as a foreign agent.
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Money laundering, failing to register as foreign agent, tax crimes.
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Strictly enforcing FARA — the Foreign Agent Registration Act of 1938.
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Either he registered as a foreign agent or he didn't.
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He also registered this year as a foreign agent for Morocco.
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They are a foreign agent, supported by Russia, publishing stolen data.
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Arabia later received a campaign contribution from a registered foreign agent
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She is charged with conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
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What happens when a foreign agent violates the required legal disclosures?
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He was not charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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He retroactively registered as a foreign agent for the Turkish work.
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My crime was my failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Failing to register as a foreign agent is a filing violation.
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The engagement agreement was written in this manner to obfuscate the amount being paid, to in turn obfuscate Skadden's requirement to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), according to federal investigators.
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Viereck was later convicted of failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The FBI believed Page was, at worst, a foreign agent for Russia.
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Butina is charged with conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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He registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department shortly after.
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Not even a charge as an unregistered foreign agent of the Russians.
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Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department in March.
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He registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department in March.
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Could a foreign agent launch another country's missiles against a third country?
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That would mean Manfort didn't need to register as a foreign agent.
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On March 7, Flynn registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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The U.S. government recently branded Kremlin-funded Russia Today as a "foreign agent."
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Now RT can add another ignominious label to its long list: foreign agent.
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CNBC could find no record of Akhmetshin having registered as a foreign agent.
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He is also charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine.
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He registered as a foreign agent only after he left the White House.
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Miller & Chevalier retroactively registered as a foreign agent for the government of Namibia.
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Here's what they are, itemized: Problem 1: lying about his status as a foreign agent Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), Flynn needed to publicly disclose any lobbying work he did with the Turkish government when he began doing it.
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Butina, 30, is charged with conspiracy and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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None of that, of course, means that he was (or is) a foreign agent.
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Surveilling someone under FISA means law enforcement believes someone acted as a foreign agent.
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If this happens, no foreign agent can carry out his aims in the country.
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He is charged with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder.
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There are also questions about whether Flynn was properly registered as a foreign agent.
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Mark Deli Siljander (R-MI) pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Politico reported that unidentified party officials believe a foreign agent may have been responsible.
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Similarly, Flynn did not register as a foreign agent while lobbying indirectly for Turkey.
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The Justice Department had said registering as a foreign agent wouldn't impact RT's content.
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Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent for the Middle Eastern country in March.
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She's pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent.
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The post claimed the "secret hand signal" proved he was an undercover foreign agent.
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The lobbying group belatedly filed a foreign agent registration for that work last year.
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Mr. Page said on CNN on Wednesday that he was not a foreign agent.
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Manafort resigns and is later indicted for failing to register as a foreign agent.
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It accuses Manafort on five counts: conspiracy against the United States; conspiracy to launder money; failing to register as a foreign agent; making false and misleading statements related to the Foreign Agent Registration Act, or FARA; and making false statements to U.S. officials.
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Manafort had previously denied doing any work that would qualify him as a foreign agent.
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None of this is to say Trump is a foreign agent under Vladimir Putin's control.
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And the same goes for how they view his retroactive registration as a foreign agent.
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Since then: April 12: Maloni announced Manafort intended to officially register as a foreign agent.
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That's why it's a big deal to finally decide to register as a foreign agent.
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RT also recently had to officially register as a foreign agent with the U.S. government.
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" Earlier this month, RT registered with the US Department of Justice as a "foreign agent.
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Patten was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent in the United States.
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And last year, it was ordered to register as a foreign agent by the U.S.
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Cohen was never charged with money laundering or failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The following day, tabloids published numerous stories saying Ivanovic was a foreign agent and traitor.
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He is being accused of failing to register as a foreign agent, among other charges.
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Charge: Bank fraud, conspiracy, lying on taxes, money laundering, failing to register as foreign agent.
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Butina was arrested in July and charged with conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent.
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Manafort is the second member of the Trump campaign to register as a foreign agent.
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The group was labeled a "foreign agent" by the Russia's Ministry of Justice in 2016.
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This week, two congressmen asked the group whether it should register as a foreign agent.
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Kian pleaded not guilty in December to conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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She pleaded innocent last week to charges of conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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He has also been charged with conspiracy to act on behalf of a foreign agent.
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One of the others, China Daily, has been registered as a foreign agent since 1983.
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Public relations work would have prompted a requirement that Mr. Craig register as foreign agent.
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Rafiekian was convicted last summer on two counts of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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Butina has pleaded not guilty to charges she acted as a foreign agent for Russia.
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He said Manafort acted as a foreign agent "long before" he worked for the campaign.
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U.S. intelligence officials accused the Kremlin of using Russian media it finances to influence U.S. voters, and Russian state broadcaster RT last month reluctantly complied with a U.S. request to register a U.S.-based affiliate as a "foreign agent" under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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But online, the conspiracy theory about Mr. Vindman as a foreign agent has begun to spread.
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Nevertheless, Zimin decided to shutter Dynasty, to get the LMF taken off the "foreign agent" list.
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Rosenstein said being a foreign agent comes with a "Scarlet L," for lobbying, on their foreheads.
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Sean Spicer claimed that Trump was completely unaware that General Michael Flynn was a foreign agent.
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He gave away intelligence secrets to the Russians, potentially endangering a foreign agent embedded with ISIS.
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Butina was arrested last week and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia.
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Butina was arrested earlier this month on charges that she acted as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Kian has been indicted for failing to register as a foreign agent for the Turkish government.
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Manafort faces charges of lying to investigators, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and money laundering.
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An ethics watchdog, the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, pressed him to register as a foreign agent.
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Sputnik's partner company, RIA Global LLC, is registered as a foreign agent in the United States.
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RT registered as a foreign agent this month after previously threatening a lawsuit over the designation.
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In the United States, the designation of foreign agent is typically assigned to foreign lobbying groups.
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The American authorities have not publicly acknowledged a request that RT register as a foreign agent.
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After being designated a "foreign agent" in 2016, the firm's leaders are worried about legal problems.
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The charges include money laundering, failure to register as a foreign agent and obstruction of justice.
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Trump put Manafort, an accused money-launderer and unregistered foreign agent, in charge of his campaign.
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Manafort is also accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Ukraine and obstructing justice.
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Flynn filed papers with the Justice Department in early March registering himself as a foreign agent.
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A California tour guide was charged Monday with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China.
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Those forms retroactively register the firm as a foreign agent for work it did years ago.
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Manafort is charged with money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
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The agent, John Joseph Frank, was ultimately indicted for failing to register as a foreign agent.
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She has been called a foreign agent, a troublemaker, a tax cheat, a traitor and ugly.
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Just two months prior, Flynn had been operating as an unregistered foreign agent on Turkey's behalf.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is facing nearly two decades in prison after being handed multiple felony counts on everything from tax fraud and money laundering to lying to federal agents and failing to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
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Podesta did not register as a foreign agent under FARA, Carlson said in a segment last October.
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MATT LEWIS, THE DAILY BEAST: The Democrats hired a foreign agent to dig up dirt Donald Trump.
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The worse case scenario is that the president is a foreign agent suddenly feels very possible (ph).
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The ruling came eight months after RFE/RL was labeled a "foreign agent" by the Russian government.
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Yet, her story sounds more like an overzealous college Republican than it does an effective foreign agent.
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The charges from Mueller included tax fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The United States might label RT or Sputnik a foreign agent, but it should never ban them.
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Law enforcement officials believed the Russian government was trying to recruit Mr. Page as a foreign agent.
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That friend was then hired by the government of Morocco as a $40,000-a-month foreign agent.
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The penalty for failing to register as a foreign agent is up to five years in prison.
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He said he was aware Manafort was acting as an unregistered foreign agent in lobbying for Ukraine.
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Akhmetshin's lobbying has made him a player in DC, and a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) complaint filed against him, as picked up by Grassley, has alleged that his lobbying went beyond what was disclosed and was conducted as a foreign agent on behalf of the Russian government.
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Flynn Intel Group received $530,000 in payments from a Turkish-owned company based in the Netherlands and earlier this month registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, acknowledging that the work may have benefited the Turkish government, according to foreign agent registration paperwork filed with the department.
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He said judicial rules restricting lobbying and political involvement don&apost apply to work as a foreign agent.
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The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States and making false Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) statements.
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She pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia.
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A Justice Department spokesman said Van Grack remained in his Justice Department post overseeing foreign-agent-registration issues.
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In September the Kremlin designated the Levada Centre a "foreign agent", which could be the end of it.
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Washington has required Russian state broadcaster RT to register a U.S.-based affiliate company as a "foreign agent".
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He also noted that Flynn has gone silent and retroactively signed on as a foreign agent to Turkey.
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A July letter from the Justice Department stated that the department determined the company isn't a foreign agent.
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Manafort is charged with conspiring to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, among other charges.
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Sam Patten, a former associate of Manafort, pleaded guilty last week to illegally acting as a foreign agent.
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Patten pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent while lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian interests.
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"I never registered as a foreign agent because I never was one," Mr. Friedman told The Guardian newspaper.
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Manafort's filing makes him the second member of Trump's inner circle to retroactively register as a foreign agent.
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But that's not the case with the bank accounts and the failure to register as a foreign agent.
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The authorities quickly determined that Mr. Flynn had not registered as a foreign agent, as required by law.
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But we know he was: Not only is this common knowledge; he belatedly registered as a foreign agent.
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Born in Germany, Viereck was a naturalized U.S. citizen who was also registered as a German foreign agent.
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Shai Franklin is CEO of Your Global Strategy, a registered Foreign Agent on behalf of Ukraine-based clients.
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Mr. Fuentes has been charged with acting on behalf of a foreign agent without notifying the attorney general.
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A GOP lawmaker is requesting the Chinese state media outlet Xinhua to register as a foreign agent. Rep.
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The letter comes after the production company for RT officially registered as a foreign agent earlier this month.
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He is facing multiple charges, including tax evasion, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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She was arrested in Washington, D.C., last month and charged with conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent.
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Flynn's consulting firm, FlynnIntel Group, received $530,000 in payments from a Turkish-owned company based in the Netherlands and this week registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, acknowledging that the work may have benefited the Turkish government, according to foreign agent registration paperwork filed with the Justice Department.
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In February, the US Justice Department forced the network's outlet in the country to register as a foreign agent.
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Here's how ridiculous this election is: A former CIA director believes a major party candidate is a foreign agent.
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The intelligence services tried to liquidate her as a traitor and foreign agent (though her early death was natural).
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On Thursday, however, Butina plead guilty to the less serious charge — of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
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He was accused in Washington, D.C., District Court of making false statements to avoid registering as a foreign agent.
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An allergic reaction is basically the body's immune system freaking out when it detects a potentially dangerous foreign agent.
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But the registrations under the Foreign Agent Registration Act won't likely resolve all of the potential troubles for Manafort.
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In 2017, the network was forced to register as a "foreign agent" in the U.S. View the discussion thread.
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In 2017, RT registered as a foreign agent in the U.S. at the request of the Department of Justice.
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Now imagine how much worse it would be if some foreign agent actually got a job at the company.
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There were allegations that Liston put a foreign agent on his gloves to blind Ali, but to no avail.
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Butina pleaded guilty Thursday to one criminal count of acting as an illegal foreign agent in the United States.
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Ms. Butina, above, was arrested on Sunday in Washington and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent of Russia.
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Last month, the organization was fined by a Moscow court for failing to comply with Russian foreign agent laws.
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An earlier version of this editorial misstated the action taken to charge a Russian woman as a foreign agent.
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In the United States, the foreign agent label is usually assigned by the government to identify foreign lobbying groups.
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First, the United States arrested a Russian citizen, Maria Butina, on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Mr. Buryakov was arrested in 2015 and later pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Butina, a Russian national, was charged with acting as a foreign agent by the Justice Department's national security division.
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But to a large extent, the foreign agent disclosure rules operate on what essentially amounts to an honor system.
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Nor did they find evidence that a foreign agent had successfully hacked into and stolen information from the server.
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He also faces charges of money-laundering conspiracy, false statements and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukrainian interests.
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On Friday, Maria Butina was sentenced to 22016 months in prison for conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
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He would not register as a foreign agent until March, a month after he was fired from the White House.
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Memorial must now label all of its publications—including lists of Stalin's victims—as the work of a foreign agent.
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Manafort is facing criminal charges of charges of money-laundering conspiracy, false statements and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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" Driscoll added, "Robert Mueller is free to look at taxes, is free to look at lobbying filings, foreign agent filings.
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He is facing charges of money laundering, tax evasion and failing to register as a foreign agent in that probe.
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The burden would be on Cohen, not Novartis, to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent under FARA.
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Then, investigators have to prove the foreign agent didn't register with the DOJ — even though they knew they had to.
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The U.S. retaliated by requiring the Russia-sponsored RT network (which hardly anyone watches) to register as a foreign agent.
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Butina is a self-proclaimed foreign agent who has been afforded a lawyer, due process and security while in detention.
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So when in September the Russian justice ministry declared the Levada Center a foreign agent, Mr. Gudkov was not surprised.
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But prosecutors have refused to sign onto that amount, arguing there is no set standard for her foreign agent charge.
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This document primarily explains what evidence the bureau has gathered to establish that a target is probably a foreign agent.
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Just months after the trip, the Moroccan government hired the lobbyist, Richard Smotkin, as a $21,000-a-month foreign agent.
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However, proving the money laundering and foreign agent registration charges in the Washington case without Gates' testimony could be challenging.
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One former foreign agent recalled being notified that the Justice Department was coming to his office for a random audit.
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It would be a felony if RT is found to have willfully failed to register as a foreign agent, however.
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The former Trump aide is accused of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, among other violations.
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Last week, Mr. Flynn filed papers acknowledging that he worked as a foreign agent last year representing the Turkish government.
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Amid pressure, CGTN registered with the U.S. government last year as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Vice President Mike Pence said Flynn being a foreign agent was "affirmation" of Trump's decision to ask Flynn to resign.
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The Justice Department on Monday charged Maria Butina, a Russian national, with conspiring against the US as a foreign agent.
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Also, it turns out he had been working as a foreign agent for Turkish government interests during the 2016 campaign.
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Effectively, Trump had a paid foreign agent run US national security for 24 days, and it affected America's foreign policy.
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Prior to Flynn making this decision, the Flynn Intel Group received $530,000 in payments from a Turkish-owned company based in the Netherlands and in March registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, acknowledging that the work may have benefited the Turkish government, according to foreign agent registration paperwork filed with the department.
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Butina was arrested on July 15 on suspicions she was in the U.S. acting as a covert foreign agent for Russia.
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Michael Flynn, disclosed in early March that he'd worked as a foreign agent representing Turkish government interests during the presidential campaign.
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They alleged that she infiltrated U.S. organizations and cultivated relationships to advance a Russian agenda without registering as a foreign agent.
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The diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was charged in Germany on Wednesday with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder.
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Had a foreign agent sent a malware-laced reply to the president, it would have been trivial to compromise the phone.
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The company that owns Moscow-based media outlet RT just registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Ms. Butina, who befriended prominent Republicans during the 2016 election, served time in a Florida prison as an unregistered foreign agent.
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So vehement that White House officials wondered if Giuliani wasn't illegally working as an unregistered foreign agent of the Turkish government.
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The term "foreign agent" is part of a 2012 law governing groups which receive foreign funding and engage in political activity.
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We know they used a dossier prepared by a foreign agent and paid for by a political party, the Democrats improperly.
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A US conservative activist named Paul Erickson, the one-time boyfriend of confessed Russian foreign agent Maria Butina, arranged the meeting.
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For one thing, he was late filing the paperwork for the Foreign Agent Registration Act — which isn't that big a deal.
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Mueller also charges Manafort with conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lying to authorities against Manafort.
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Russia's justice ministry has branded Russia's only major private pollster a "foreign agent," a stigma that could lead to its closure.
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But Butina didn't inform the US government she was acting as a foreign agent on American soil, which would be illegal.
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He retroactively filed forms with the Department of Justice disclosing his work as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian political party.
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It's tough to accuse someone of being a foreign agent for showing you a pic of a six-week-old Labradoodle.
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While they were registered lobbyists, the allegations are that they failed to disclose certain activities on behalf of a foreign agent.
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He only registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when the media reported on the undisclosed work for Turkey.
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Earlier this year, former Democratic senator from South Dakota turned lobbyist Tom Daschle also registered as a foreign agent of Turkey.
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Although the public editor undoubtedly is a foreign agent in the newsroom, Times people have been generally supportive, encouraging and kind.
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They actually launched a counterintelligence investigation to determine if the president of the United States of America is a foreign agent.
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Flynn's longtime business partner, Bijan Kian, was also charged by federal authorities in December for working as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Joe Lieberman's work on behalf of the Chinese telecom firm ZTE to determine whether he must register as a foreign agent.
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Washington last year forced Russian state broadcaster RT to register its U.S.-based affiliate as a foreign agent under U.S. law.
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In that case, Manafort will be tried for, among other things, lobbying as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Ukraine.
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The firm will represent a Russian-backed Serbian nationalist party, according to Foreign Agent Registration Act records filed two weeks ago.
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Manafort is being accused of bank fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department.
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"Rees also responded to the allegation that Muller was a foreign agent, saying he "worked for me and no one else.
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Stonington Strategies is registered as a foreign agent of Qatar, and the lawsuit says that Qatar pays him $300,000 a month.
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Mueller's team has indicted Manafort on five charges in DC related to money laundering and not registering as a foreign agent.
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He faces a second trial next month on charges of obstruction of justice and failure to register as a foreign agent.
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And many of them, one also suspects, are well aware that a de facto foreign agent sits in the Oval Office.
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OPINION An editorial on Tuesday about President Trump misstated the action taken to charge a Russian woman as a foreign agent.
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An earlier version of this article misstated how Maria Butina, who is accused of being a foreign agent, entered her plea.
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One, brought in Washington, charges Manafort with money laundering and acting as a foreign agent without registering with the Justice Department.
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Zuberi later Friday pleaded guilty to counts on tax evasion, campaign finance violations and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Officials from the DOJ and FBI also testified that there has been a drop in foreign agent registration since the 1990s.
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After he was fired by Trump, Flynn revealed he was paid $500,000 to work as a foreign agent representing Turkish interests.
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Butina pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent, agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.
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"If I had known to register as a foreign agent, I would have done so without delay," Butina told the judge.
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Not long after my boyfriend and I broke up, Maria Butina was charged with conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Even though Flynn's work on the Turkish campaign dates back to 2016, Flynn only registered retroactively as a foreign agent in March.
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Being an unregistered foreign agent—admittedly a phrase that sounds more ominous than it is—is a felony, though it's rarely prosecuted.
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He acknowledged that the work may have benefited the Turkish government, according to foreign agent registration paperwork filed with the Justice Department.
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Richard Gates, listed as an employee of the firm, also completed his registration as a foreign agent with the documents filed Tuesday.
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Yes, but: Page was on the FBI's radar as an individual working as a foreign agent years prior to the dossier's release.
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Butina, who was arrested in 2018, had pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the Russian government.
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In the end, if Manafort's primary alleged crime was acting as a foreign agent, his real issue was failing to register sooner.
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So far, she has maintained her innocence, saying she was never a foreign agent and simply a foreign student studying in America.
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Gates said he and Manafort knowingly failed to report foreign bank accounts and had failed to register Manafort as a foreign agent.
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The Associated Press reported Flynn only submitted his foreign agent registration with the Department of Justice during the second week of March.
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A federal district court judge on Wednesday ordered alleged Russian foreign agent Maria Butina to remain in custody while she awaits trial.
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"While the toxic 'foreign agent' label doesn't sound good in any language, in Russian, it smacks of Cold War espionage," Krivosheev said.
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The Justice Department accused Craig of misleading officials in order to avoid registering with the department as a foreign agent under FARA.
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She later pleaded guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent and, as part of her plea agreement, promised to cooperate with investigators.
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She pleaded guilty to a lesser count of failing to register as a foreign agent and is serving 18 months in prison.
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In January, Craig's former firm agreed to register as a foreign agent over its work for pro-Russia political leaders in Ukraine.
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The indictment accuses him of having been an unregistered foreign agent for another Putin-aligned oligarch, the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
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The former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser denied in an interview on CNN on Wednesday that he acted as a foreign agent.
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" He added that "registered American voters should not have to worry that their personal information will be hacked by a foreign agent.
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Manafort has been indicted in Mueller's investigation on charges of tax evasion, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Unlike Russia's RT or China's CGTN, Al Jazeera has so far avoided being designated a foreign agent by the US Justice Department.
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Rudy Giuliani, his legal fixer of sorts, is reportedly under investigation by federal prosecutors for lobbying without registering as a foreign agent.
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The US distributor of China Daily is registered as a foreign agent in the United States under the US Foreign Registration Act.
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The defense argued that, while Craig indeed didn't want to register as a foreign agent, he genuinely didn't think he needed to.
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The Foreign Agent Registration Act, little enforced since its adoption in 1938 to prevent fascist subversion, needs stronger restrictions, disclosure and penalties.
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Unlike general FISA surveillance, however, Section 220006 does not require that the target be a suspected terrorist, spy, or other foreign agent.
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Butina was arrested in July for secretly trying to influence US politics on Russia's behalf while not registered as a foreign agent.
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Butina was arrested by the FBI on Sunday and indicted on Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent.
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In exchange, other charges related to money laundering, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and making other false statements will be dropped.
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Manafort's attorneys called the prosecution's money laundering legal theory flawed because failing to register as a foreign agent did not generate financial proceeds.
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There are reports that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta worked on behalf of a Ukrainian interest without registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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They call me a, quote/unquote, foreign agent, but then at the same time they say I&aposm a target of recruitment, right?
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And maybe I was actually the center of my own meddling with a foreign agent and I just got to let this go.
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The research body, which considers itself independent, was fined by a Russian court on October 26 for not registering as a "foreign agent".
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And the Justice Department might force RT to register as a foreign agent, which would create ominous new disclosure requirements for the broadcaster.
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Somebody needs to look at the fact that the dossier was prepared by a foreign agent paid for the by the Democratic Party.
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The DOJ found the company was not a foreign agent, per a letter that doesn't name AMI or the National Enquirer by name.
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Flynn only filed his foreign agent documents after news reports detailed how his consulting firm had taken more than $500,000 for the work.
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The troubling thing is that these reports drew on publicly available Foreign Agent Registrations, which are a standard search in most vetting processes.
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Russia's last remaining independent polling firm, the Levada Centre, was designated a "foreign agent" by the government, two weeks ahead of parliamentary elections.
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Manafort will face charges of obstructing justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice and failing to register as a foreign agent during his D.C. trial.
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What's more, Cohen would need to register as a foreign agent if he provided any public policy representation to overseas companies, Weissman added.
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Less than a month later, the Justice Department also pressured the Kremlin-backed television station RT America to register as a foreign agent.
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The decision to label the Levada Center a foreign agent was widely seen as a setback to the efforts to foster greater transparency.
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Manafort is accused of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, which allegedly occurred before he joined President Trump's campaign.
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Flynn did not immediately register as a foreign agent after his firm, Flynn Intel Group, was hired by a Turkish businessman last year.
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RT America announced this week that the Justice Department has asked the company that distributes its content to register as a foreign agent.
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Manafort has also reportedly decided to retroactively register as a foreign agent following a series of reports on his lobbying work for Ukraine.
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It's also already had the ancillary benefit of inspiring lots of Washington shops to start actually complying with Foreign Agent Registration Act rules.
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Later that year, the national security division of the Justice Department forced RT America, formerly Russia Today, to register as a foreign agent.
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For example, he's charged with not reporting certain bank accounts and with not registering as a foreign agent — these are clear-cut crimes.
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Muzin has admitted culpability," the complaint charges, and "as its registered foreign agent, Mr. Muzin's admission also binds the defendant State of Qatar.
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Redacted Tonight is broadcast on RT America, a Russia-funded network that registered as a "foreign agent" under pressure from the Justice Department.
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The op-ed in The Hill raised suspicions that Mr. Flynn was working as a foreign agent, and in a letter dated Nov.
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"If you get a dollar from ad monetization on YouTube, you're a foreign agent!" a popular Russian blogger, Aleksandr Gorbunov, wrote on Twitter.
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And why would a foreign agent take extraordinary risks to spy for the United States if his or her information is not valued?
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Manafort has previously registered as a foreign agent for his work consulting on behalf of the pro-Kremlin party, the Party of Regions.
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The longtime Republican operative is accused in the Washington case of money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
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Those nationals include Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian who was convicted last year of conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Mr. Flynn had registered as a lobbyist last year but did not file papers with the Justice Department registering as a foreign agent.
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Rasky registered as a foreign agent earlier this year to advise Azerbaijan's government on strategic communications on a contract worth $15,000 a month.
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The charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent, bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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The charge here — not registering as a foreign agent under FARA — is believed to be widespread in Washington, but it is rarely prosecuted.
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Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is planning to register with the U.S. government as a foreign agent, his spokesman Jason Maloni said Wednesday.
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Prosecutors dropped a second count against Butina of acting as an unregistered foreign agent as part of the deal, according to The Washington Post.
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The Washington Post reported that a longtime Pruitt friend and lobbyist helped arrange the trip and later registered as a foreign agent representing Morocco.
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To accomplish that, they had to persuade a judge that there was "probable cause" to believe Mr Page was acting as a foreign agent.
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After a protracted battle, RT, a television network funded by the Russian government, was made to register as a foreign agent in November 2017.
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RT, which is funded by the Russian government, said in September that the Justice Department had asked it to register as a foreign agent.
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As we noted above, Mike Pence is almost certainly implicated in the Trump transition team's knowledge of Flynn acting as a foreign agent. Why?
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Washington (CNN)Paul Manafort is expected to retroactively file as a foreign agent after failing to disclose his prior work for a foreign government.
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Butina, a 29-year-old Russian woman, was charged this month with covertly working as a foreign agent while living in the United States.
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In March, he also retroactively registered as a foreign agent after it was reported he helped represent Turkish interests in the US last year.
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In recent months, he filed documents to retroactively register as a foreign agent to help resolve at least part of the Justice Department's probe.
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The Trump White House said it did not know that Flynn was acting as a foreign agent when he was appointed national security adviser.
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Though the RT claims to be an independent editorial operation, the U.S. Justice Department recently required the company to register as a foreign agent.
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Or did they instead ride roughshod over the rights of an American as they overstepped their license to listen in on a foreign agent?
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Apparently under pressure from the Justice Department, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has officially registered as a foreign agent for the Turkish government.
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Last week, he retroactively registered as a "foreign agent," for the lobbying work he did on behalf of Turkey during the presidential campaign cycle.
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He officially registered as a foreign agent earlier this month amid revelations that he had done lobbying work that ultimately benefitted the Turkish government.
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The news network, which was forced to register in 2017 as a foreign agent, denounced her resignation at the time as a PR stunt.
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"Upon its registration as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA), RT Network became ineligible to hold news credentials," Caplan continued.
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Manafort has been charged in several indictments with acting as an unregistered foreign agent, lying to investigators and conspiracy to launder money, among others.
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For example, if an American works as a paid lobbyist for Russia but fails to register as a foreign agent, that violates U.S. law.
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But in 2015, under a recent Russian law, Baikal Wave was declared a "foreign agent", designating it as a rights group funded from abroad.
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Mueller's office originally charged Manafort with money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, both related to his consulting work in Ukraine.
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The fact that Flynn didn't sign the pledge removes legal hurdles preventing him from foreign agent lobbying and advocacy work involving former administration colleagues.
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Lobbying experts told the Post that some of Giuliani's work for foreign clients is likely to require disclosure under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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Three US officials told Bloomberg that investigators are looking at possible campaign finance violations and whether Giuliani failed to register as a foreign agent.
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A former associate of onetime national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of working as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Previously, Simonyan said on the network that designating RT as a foreign agent could have negative consequences for U.S. news agencies operating in Russia.
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Another trial on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent is set to follow in Washington on Sept. 17.
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NGOs, many of which receive funding from outside Russia, live in fear of being labeled a "foreign agent" subjected to audits and heavy fines.
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"Upon its registration as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA), RT Network became ineligible to hold news credentials," Caplan wrote.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges of bank fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department.
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Under that law, "foreign agents" must include in any information they publish or broadcast to Russian audiences a mention of their "foreign agent" designation.
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The production company for Russia's state-funded television channel RT has registered as a foreign agent, according to federal disclosures that appeared on Monday.
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In D.C., Manafort is charged with conspiracy to launder money, witness tampering, lying to the Justice Department and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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The charges against him include money laundering, tax and bank fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for his Ukraine lobbying work.
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" The 86 organizations currently on that list have to label all information they broadcast to Russian audiences as the product of a "foreign agent.
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There will be investigations into the White House — the same White House that hired a foreign agent to be the top national security aide.
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But the legal argument that compels RT to register as a foreign agent but not the BBC, which is funded by a tax, is mysterious.
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Butina, 30, pleaded guilty in December on one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent as part of a cooperation agreement with prosecutors.
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Imaad Zuberi, 49, is also set to plead guilty to lobbying high-level U.S. officials while working as a foreign agent, The Associated Press reports.
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A user has no idea if they were duped by a foreign agent or a bot or a legitimate user who broke the platform's rules.
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But Wheeler also notes that a second foreign agent crime listed in the warrants — 18 USC §§ 951 — may not be related to his consulting work.
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In public discussions over Flynn's work on behalf of Turkish interests, most of it has focused on his failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Since the Russian "foreign agent" law was enacted 2012, several dozen of politically involved NGOs were punished for receiving even a fraction of foreign funding.
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Manafort, who resigned in August, also worked to further the interests of foreign governments as a consultant -- despite never officially registering as a foreign agent.
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"Butina confirmed that she had done a deal with U.S. investigators and confessed to being a foreign agent," Zakharova told a news briefing in Moscow.
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Spicer acknowledged Friday that Flynn's lawyer called the Trump transition team inquiring about whether Flynn should amend his filing to register as a foreign agent.
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Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein attorney Joshua Ian Rosenstein told CNN that a foreign agent registration could be required, even though it is registered in Germany.
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Flynn filed paperwork on Wednesday to officially register as a foreign agent, and admitted that he may have done work that benefited the Turkish government.
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Ex-Trump aide Carter Page declared Wednesday that "of course" he hasn't acted as foreign agent, denying reports that he worked with the Russian government.
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Go deeper: Why Paul Manafort registered as a foreign agent, how Mueller's probe closed in on Manafort, and a look back at Manafort's Russia intrigue.
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Here's how and when Flynn worked for Turkey over the past year: Last year, Flynn registers as a U.S. lobbyist, but not a foreign agent.
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The charges include tax evasion, money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent, and even the suggestion of mortgage fraud involving a Manafort relative.
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Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff retroactively registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for work he did last year involving the Republic of Congo.
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From the looks of things there is no easy way for a consumer of RT to learn that it has filed as a foreign agent.
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Manafort faces a separate trial in D.C. on charges of conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in late September.
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For a polling organization, it's the designation itself: Who is going to answer questions from someone who calls and introduces themselves as a foreign agent?
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T&R Productions LLC, the production company behind RT America, relented and filed as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice in mid-November.
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Those existing charges include conspiracy to launder money, failing to file foreign bank account reports, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and making false statements.
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The 2012 foreign agent law required groups covered by the legislation to submit regular reports on their funding, objectives, spending and who their managers are.
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On Monday, his lawyers also filed another lawsuit accusing Jamal Benomar, a former United Nations diplomat, of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Qatar.
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On Thursday, Ms. Butina, 20153, pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiring to act as a foreign agent in a deal with federal prosecutors.
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The charges against him in Washington include failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government under former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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"It is far from clear what activity triggers a requirement to file a report as a foreign agent," said Kevin M. Downing, Mr. Manafort's lawyer.
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On Thursday, RT agreed to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent in the United States, despite vehement objections from the network's leadership.
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The lobbyist, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as part of his agreement.
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Manafort faces charges of conspiracy and money laundering, as well as failing to report foreign bank accounts and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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You'll hear them speak of Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm employed at this very moment by the National Republican Campaign Committee, as a nefarious foreign agent.
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The 2012 foreign agent law required groups covered by the legislation to submit regular reports on their funding, objectives, spending and who their managers are.
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DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited filing fees, implemented in 1993, as contributing to the drop in foreign agent registrations A forthcoming bill from Rep.
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Gates last week pleaded to guilty to lying to Mueller's office and conspiracy against the U.S. related to his work as an unregistered foreign agent.
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He was charged with numerous counts, including conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, lying to investigators and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Voice of America's critics have long argued it is US propaganda, and Russia itself designated it a foreign agent, but US presidents have supported it.
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"There are a ton of people that aren't filing," said a person who registered as a foreign agent for the first time earlier this year.
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Hai Tian Development, which distributes The People's Daily, and China Daily have been registered as foreign-agent entities since at least 1996 and 1983, respectively.
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Of note: Navalny's foundation was deemed a "foreign agent" by the Russian government in October, making it susceptible to checks like these, according to BBC.
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Donald Trump's second of three campaign chiefs, Paul Manafort, announced through a spokesperson today that he is planning to formally register as a foreign agent.
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It recommends denying U.S. visas to Chinese journalists and having scholars affiliated with the Chinese government-run "Thousand Talents Programme" registered as a foreign agent.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to a raft of charges, from money-laundering, to failing to register as a foreign agent, to bank and tax fraud.
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Mike Flynn, registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, acknowledging that the work he did during the transition may have benefited the Turkish government.
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Prosecutors said Manafort laundered illegal proceeds he generated by lobbying for Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent with the U.S. government as required by law.
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The U.S. Department of Justice forced RT to register as "a foreign agent" in November last year, a designation that requires it to disclose financial information.
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Other names speculated for a prisoner swap include Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist imprisoned in the United States for acting as a foreign agent.
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Sanders was asked about 29-year-old Russian Maria Butina, who is accused of secretly working as a foreign agent while living in the United States.
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These details are emphasized by Poland's major independent broadcaster, TVN, which is owned by a US company and dismissed by the right as a foreign agent.
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The attack on Felgenhauer came less than two weeks after state-owned Russia-24 carried a show in which it called Ekho Moskvy a foreign agent.
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are said to be investigating whether Giuliani acted as an unregistered foreign agent in his Ukraine work.
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Flynn registered as a foreign agent on March 7, three weeks after being fired and eight months after he signed on to lobby for Turkish interests.
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Last month the government declared Memorial a "foreign agent"—once a Stalinist term for traitors, now a legal classification intended to throttle troublesome civil-society groups.
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Many organizations have said the stigma of "foreign agent," which rings like "spy" in Russian, would make it impossible for them to work in the country.
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Crowley subsequently worked for a Ukrainian oligarch, Victor Pinchuk, according to a registration notice filed with the Justice Department's foreign agent registration office in March 2017.
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Manafort faces a second trial in September in Washington, where he is charged with money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
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Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, U.S. citizens who lobby on behalf of foreign governments or political entities must disclose their work to the Justice Department.
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Under the 2012 law, "foreign agents" have to include in any information they publish or broadcast to Russian audiences a mention of their "foreign agent" designation.
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The Levada Centre, Russia's last independent polling agency, was declared a "foreign agent", a ploy the government uses to harass organisations it dislikes with red tape.
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That firm also registered with the US government as a foreign agent Wednesday—saying, essentially, that the work they did could've principally benefitted the Ukrainian government.
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She ultimately pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent while working to advance Russia's interests by infiltrating U.S. political circles.
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The registration did lead to Russian government retaliation via a law requiring any media outlet in Russia receiving foreign funding to register as a foreign agent.
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The decision to take away RT's credentials came after the network registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA) earlier this month.
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Newly unsealed court documents show that prosecutors indicated in a court filing on Saturday their investigation into the Russian foreign agent had more than one subject.
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Kian was indicted on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent for work he did on behalf of the Turkish government (The Associated Press).
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Manafort was indicted in late October on charges that included money laundering, tax evasion and failing to register with the U.S. government as a foreign agent.
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Maria Butina, who is currently under arrest on charges of being a foreign agent, seems not to have been the most adept spy in the world.
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Manafort will be tried on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money in federal court in D.C. in September.
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Last year, the US government forced RT to formally register as a foreign agent in the United States over its involvement in the 2016 election meddling.
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They show that former Senator Bob Dole, acting as a foreign agent for Taiwan, had been working since May to coordinate meetings with Mr. Trump's staff.
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He originally faced seven charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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He isn't a lobbyist but was a registered foreign agent working for Azerbaijan's government until August — something he wouldn't be allowed to do under Biden's proposal.
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He's being charged with crimes like failing to report certain bank accounts and not registering as a foreign agent for which there is clear, documented evidence.
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The Justice Ministry in October formally labelled Navalny's anti-corruption group a "foreign agent", meaning it can be subjected to spot checks and face bureaucratic scrutiny.
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Monica Crowley — who bowed out of a Trump administration post after a plagiarism scandal — is now working as a foreign agent for Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
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Manafort, who is now in jail, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), among other crimes.
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In October, the country's Justice Ministry classified the Anti-Corruption Foundation as a "foreign agent," a label often used to stigmatize anti-Kremlin groups in Russia.
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MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Russia's Justice Ministry on Wednesday formally labelled opposition leader Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption group a "foreign agent", the RIA news agency reported.
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Van Grack left the special counsel's office in October and will lead a division of Justice Department prosecutors dealing exclusively with Foreign Agent Registration Act violations.
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That foreign-agent probe also led to a failed false-statement prosecution earlier this year against former Skadden lawyer and Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig.
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Manafort is set to go on trial next month in Washington on charges of money laundering, witness tampering, and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The agreement forced the firm to turn over $4.6 million it had earned for its work for Ukraine and to retroactively register as a foreign agent.
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Foreign agent registration means, in essence, that you are an official lobbyist for a foreign government — there are well over 1,000 registered foreign agents in Washington.
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Manafort also faces charges in a Washington, D.C., court of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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On Friday, Russian operative and NRA activist Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in a U.S. prison for conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Flynn also acknowledged that he signed Foreign Agent Registration Act filings that contained false statements about his work on a lobbying and advocacy project related to Turkey.
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Under US regulations, that made Flynn ineligible to receive classified briefings, which he'd been receiving since August, because of his role as a foreign agent, Cummings wrote.
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I&aposve seen documents from a paid political informant, foreign agent working with the Russians paid by the Democrats to get a warrant on an American citizen.
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Patten also pleaded guilty to not registering as a foreign agent with his work for Ukrainian political leaders and has since agreed to cooperate with the government.
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Michael Flynn, had to step down after a controversial call with the Russian ambassador, while his work as a foreign agent during the transition has drawn scrutiny.
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Earlier in March, he registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, formally admitting that he'd lobbied for the Turkish government as recently as November 2016.
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And registering as a foreign agent would then require those media outlets to report their staffing and sources of funding to the Kremlin on a regular basis.
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Public affairs firm Levick is listed as an active foreign agent, but the contract at the Justice Department appears to only have been effective through March 2017.
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Butina was sentenced in April to serve 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the Russian government.
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This action by a foreign agent prompted the resignation of the Democratic National Committee chairwoman and raised new electoral challenges for the Democrats' presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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Flynn stirred controversy again this month after registering as a foreign agent and revealing that he had done lobbying work that may have benefited the Turkish government.
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He has since registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department — a move that came after his financial ties to Russia and Turkey came under scrutiny.
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Patten also pleaded guilty to not registering as a foreign agent with his work for Ukrainian political leaders and has since agreed to cooperate with the government.
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Manafort is facing federal charges of money laundering, tax and bank fraud, and failing to register as a foreign agent when he did lobbying work in Ukraine.
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Podesta Group Chief Executive Officer Kimberley Fritts said its lawyers worked with those at Mercury to determine that registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act was unnecessary.
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Tuesday's move was Russia's first reported response to the Justice Department's decision to force Russian broadcaster RT to register as a foreign agent in the United States.
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Mr. Manafort pleaded not guilty to those charges and additional charges related to his alleged failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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He has been charged with a long list of federal crimes, ranging from money laundering to tax evasion, conspiracy and failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Why it matters: Mr. Whelan's arrest comes after a Russian woman, Maria Butina, pleaded guilty last month in Washington to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Still, whoever comes in to replace Ms. Ma is likely to face the same quandary, because that person will be required to register as a foreign agent.
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Thomas B. Edsall President Trump has single-handedly done more to undermine the basic tenets of American democracy than any foreign agent or foreign propaganda campaign could.
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Prosecutors had accused Craig of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act by misleading authorities about the nature of his work and whether it required him to register.
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The former campaign chairman, 68, was hit with five additional criminal counts on Friday, including lying, conspiracy to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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The Podesta Group has registered as a foreign agent for a U.S.-based Saudi group that has been running advertisements attacking Qatar for its alleged terrorism ties.
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The charge he accepted, failing to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, carried a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent in March for work he did during the campaign that benefited the Turkish government.
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The indictment of Manafort and his former partner Richard Gates include 12 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, being an unregistered foreign agent, and failure to pay taxes.
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Flynn also filed materially false statements and omissions in his March 7, 2017, foreign agent filing over his company's work with the Turkish government, according to prosecutors.
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U.S. authorities have designated Kremlin-funded broadcaster RT as a "foreign agent," after intelligence officials alleged it tried to meddle in the U.S. presidential election last year.
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The charges against him in the Washington case include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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A court-imposed gag order on Mr. Nawi's arrest — for, among other charges, contact with a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit a crime — was lifted on Thursday.
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of Yanukovych's government, which lost power in 2014.
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But take the case of Maria Butina, the alleged Russian foreign agent who is accused of trying to influence a number of Republican officials, particularly through the NRA.
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Butina was arrested in July but reached a deal with federal prosecutors in December and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Lindsey Graham, often a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, admonished him Thursday, saying it would be "a mistake" to accept political opposition information from a foreign agent.
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Maria Butina has pleaded guilty in a D.C. federal court to conspiracy charges alleging that she acted as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the Russian government.
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And NBC News even adds that Mueller could be looking into whether Podesta and his company violated what&aposs known as FARA, the Foreign Agent&aposs Registration Act.
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Beginning in July 2017, the FBI obtained warrants to search Cohen's emails based on probable cause that — among other things — Cohen was acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Butina, who is a gun rights activist, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent as part of a cooperation agreement with prosecutors.
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Now, we know for a fact her campaign was colluding, had a foreign agent Christopher Steele paying for Russian lies and propaganda to lie to the American people.
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He, for instance, explains how the mountains of evidence of campaign contacts with Russians is not sufficient to charge crimes under conspiracy, foreign agent, or campaign finance laws.
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Flynn Intel Group received $530,000 in payments from the company and acknowledged in its registration as a foreign agent that the work may have benefited the Turkish government.
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The Ministry of Justice labeled the foundation a "foreign agent" because it receives funding from foreign sources and because it has been accused of engaging in political activities.
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Spicer said Thursday, before the report was published, that Trump was unaware that Flynn was acting as a foreign agent when he picked him as national security adviser.
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In November 2017, the U.S. Justice Department forced the broadcaster for Russia's propaganda outlet RT to register as a foreign agent over its ties to the Russian government.
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Jackson last week refused to dismiss the charges, which include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Craig left Skadden Arps in 2018, and earlier this year the firm agreed to register as a foreign agent as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.
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RT pushed back against the Justice Department's pressure to register as a foreign agent amid several ongoing congressional and federal investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Butina made international headlines last week when the Justice Department announced her arrest and a grand jury formally approved charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent.
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Meanwhile, Manafort, who faces charges including failing to register as a foreign agent, money laundering, tax evasion, and conspiracy, has pleaded not guilty in both D.C. and Virginia.
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The details: The firm was founded by Washington lobbyist Nick Muzin, a registered foreign agent who most recently worked on an influence campaign for the government of Qatar.
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While good-government groups hail the potential change, saying it would help curtail abuse, international corporations warn that being called a "foreign agent" could create the wrong impression.
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If they had ditched email and just held a 15-minute meeting, members of the campaign could have hashed out the foreign-agent decision more quickly in private.
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A second trial, in September, will deal with Manafort's alleged money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent while lobbying on behalf of the Ukrainian government.
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Also among them is the complaint against Maria Butina, the Russian accused of acting as a foreign agent and plotting to gain Republican support for pro-Russia policies.
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Mr. Zaree also faced harassment and intimidation by the state-run news media, which demonized him as a traitor, foreign agent and spy, the Martin Ennals Foundation said.
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Navalny has tried unsuccessfully to contest the foreign agent designation in court, something he has cast as part of a coordinated government campaign aimed at stifling his activities.
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"Failing to register as a foreign agent really allows a foreign government to wage information warfare against Americans because they're able to covertly influence Americans without them knowing."
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A subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, has also registered as a foreign agent to represent its oil interests and the government of Saudi Arabia.
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Flynn also has acknowledged serving as a paid foreign agent of the Turkish government in a dispute with the United States while serving as the president's campaign adviser.
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The investigation pertains to whether Craig improperly performed lobbying work on behalf of a group associated with Ukraine without registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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The FARA unit currently relies on news media reports or tips from other agencies or whistleblowers to identify who may be evading registration as a foreign agent. Rep.
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"President Trump has single-handedly done more to undermine the basic tenets of American democracy than any foreign agent or foreign propaganda campaign could," Thomas Edsall wrote yesterday.
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Purchasing and remortgaging luxury properties was the main way the former Trump campaign manager allegedly hid money he made as a foreign agent for Ukraine over many years.
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This Republican operative and lobbyist pleaded guilty to not registering as a foreign agent with his work for Ukrainian political bigwigs, and agreed to cooperate with the government.
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While far-right supporters often see Jews as "a cosmopolitan foreign agent" threatening national identity, far-left groups sometimes blame Jews for economic uncertainties and tensions caused by globalisation.
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Pence on Thursday called the news of Flynn's foreign agent filing "an affirmation of the President's decision to ask General Flynn to resign" in an interview with Fox News.
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Butina admitted to being a Russian foreign agent last month after spending at least two years attempting to build Russian influence through organizations such as the National Rifle Association.
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" Like Manafort, Flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent after taking $530,000 from a Turkish businessman for work he did that Flynn acknowledged principally benefited the "Republic of Turkey.
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The White House has acknowledged that Flynn notified the transition team that he might need to register as a foreign agent, but claimed that Trump was not personally notified.
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That separate trial, which is set to begin in September, involves accusations that Manafort failed to register as a foreign agent, made false statements to investigators and laundered money.
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Registering as a foreign agent now could help resolve at least the questions lingering over whether he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Manafort and his lawyers hope.
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He has also called a FISA warrant on his communications reported by The Washington Post "unjustified," and rejected suggestions that he may have been acting as a foreign agent.
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Greenberg Traurig was hired in 2014 as a subcontractor for the Gephardt Group, which provides lobbying services to Turkey, according to foreign agent registration records submitted to the court.
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As the New York Times reported Wednesday, the Trump administration reportedly knew that Flynn was under investigation after working as a foreign agent, while also working for Trump's campaign.
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Known as the Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the non-governmental organization was branded a "foreign agent" in 2015 for having received funding from abroad.
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"At this time, Michael Cohen has no position in the transition team in the new administration, he's not a registered lobbyist, he's not a registered foreign agent," Avenatti said.
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At least five congressional staffers and State Department officials attended that movie showing, according to a Foreign Agent Registration Act complaint filed with the Justice Department about Veselnitskaya's efforts.
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On Monday, the special counsel filed a claim that Manafort tampered with witnesses after he was indicted in February for money laundering and illegally acting as a foreign agent.
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Sanford said that he, like others, was surprised to see Butina's name and picture in the news this week being charged with acting as a foreign agent for Russia.
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He is prominently featured in a Department of Justice Foreign Agent disclosure form as the person who gave direction to lobbyists to arrange a meeting between Trump and Zeman.
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"There are quite a few reactionary-minded people in this country who are already declaring me a foreign agent — they think that I am working for someone," he said.
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Nauert said the Russian State Duma had approved additional legislation that could enable the government to extend the foreign agent designation to individual journalists in addition to media outlets.
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Don't forget: Manafort is charged with tax and bank fraud in Virginia, in addition to facing charges in Washington, D.C. for money laundering and being an unregistered foreign agent.
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Ron Rockwell Hansen has been charged with attempted espionage and for acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, according to the Justice Department.
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Rafiekian faces two criminal counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, making false statements to the Justice Department and acting as a foreign agent.
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One investigative source told the publication that they were probing whether Giuliani violated the law by acting as an unregistered foreign agent, or concealed his work for foreign clients.
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Craig was charged with misleading federal investigators examining his obligation to register as a foreign agent in connection with a 2012 report he produced for the government of Ukraine.
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RT will be registering as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a World War II-era law that sought to identify and counteract pro-Nazi propaganda.
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In July, he admitted to meeting with Maria Butina, who was indicted on charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent, during his trip to Russa in 2015.
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When the FBI arrested Abouammo for failing to register as a foreign agent, it added charges of falsifying an invoice in an attempt to obstruct a federal criminal investigation.
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In Manafort's case, Laurenza only joined his legal team after the government had started to investigate Manafort for, among other things, the failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Russia: President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law several legal amendments that could require anyone distributing information and being paid from abroad to register as a foreign agent.
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KEI is registered as a foreign agent of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, a public policy research institute funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea.
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The Russian woman accused of acting as a foreign agent shopped access to Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of her U.S. political operations, ABC News reported on Monday.
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"Sometimes they're more frustrating, but I find the foreign work more interesting, rather than trying to get a tax cut" for a domestic client, the first foreign agent said.
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One current foreign agent said that "there is a significantly greater likelihood that someone will propose to you something that's illegal" while working for foreign clients versus domestic ones.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Russian government-run Sputnik news agency had been required to register as a "foreign agent" in the United States.
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Those polices could include requiring campaign officials to proactively report any efforts by a foreign agent to offer election assistance and even revisiting the law establishing a special counsel.
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And Shaheen pushed aggressively this year to force RT — the Russian news outlet that intelligence officials believe aided the Kremlin's election influence campaign — to register as a foreign agent.
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What Mueller's team alleges, specifically, is that Manafort lobbied on behalf of Yanukovych, a former president of Ukraine, for years without registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
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Manafort, who resigned from the Trump campaign under a cloud of suspicion surrounding his lobbying work in Ukraine, has reportedly decided to register with the government as a foreign agent.
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Like, why if you knew that in fact that they&aposve had been penetrated and he&aposd been read, etcetera, by or accessed by a foreign agent, that is significant.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to launder money, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine government.
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Given that Manafort was charged only Monday — and for tax evasion and failure to register as a foreign agent, not activities related to the campaign — it's too early to tell.
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It's also despite the fact that Flynn has admitted that while working on Trump's campaign while he was secretly acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the nation of Turkey.
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Butina, who had been studying at American University in Washington as a graduate student, was arrested in July on charges of conspiracy and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Whelan's arrest came just 15 days after the United States arrested Maria Butina, a Russian national who pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
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Manafort is charged with conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of the government of Ukraine's former pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych.
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Butina came to the United States on a student visa in July of 2016, but worked illegally as an unregistered foreign agent at the direction of the unnamed Russian official.
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Flynn has admitted to failing to register as a foreign agent of Turkey while lobbying to have Gulen extradited, work for which two of his business associates have been indicted.
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These included money laundering, tax fraud, lying to the justice department, failing to register as a foreign agent and obstructing justice by attempting to influence a potential witness against him.
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Like former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's first national security adviser failed for months to register as a foreign agent, in his case for his work for Turkey.
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As part of Flynn pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his Russian contacts, he was not charged with illegally acting as a foreign agent for Turkey.
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While Leung does connect his advocacy with independence movements in Tibet and Xinjiang -- "we're all asking for the same thing" -- far from being a foreign agent, he's actually Chinese born.
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In fact, Manafort recently registered his public relations firm as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice for $17 million worth of work he'd done for those Ukrainian groups.
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Kian, a 67-year-old Iranian-American businessman, had been charged with conspiring to hide lobbying work for Turkey from the Justice Department and acting as an illegal foreign agent.
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They also said he purposely failed to register as a foreign agent to conceal his true role as a covert operative embedded at a Manhattan branch of Vnesheconombank, or VEB.
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The 29-year-old Russian woman accused of working as a foreign agent in the U.S. reportedly met with senior officials in the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve in 85033.
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Manafort is facing numerous charges, including tax and bank fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for lobbying work he did abroad.
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At the end of June, he retroactively registered as a foreign agent for millions of dollars of work his consulting firm did for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
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Manafort, who was convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud earlier this month, faces charges including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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On Monday, the special counsel filed a claim that Manafort had tampered with witnesses after he was indicted in February for money laundering and illegally acting as a foreign agent.
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The Levada Center is Russia's only independent pollster, and just days ago was declared a "foreign agent" by the government, meaning it will probably have to shut its polling operation.
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During the Trump administration, Democrats sound like legal hawks in demanding criminal charges for conduct long treated as civil matters, such as campaign finance violations and foreign agent registration violations.
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His former law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, agreed to register as a foreign agent with as part of a settlement with the Justice Department earlier this year.
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Flynn was always the most exposed of the high-ranking Trump officials and he lacked a clear defense on some of the allegations regarding his work as a foreign agent.
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Flynn is expected to testify against his former business partner Bijan Kian, who faces a July trial on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Turkish government.
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He said he feared being declared a "foreign agent," a revived Stalinist label that basically means "spy," and that is now being used to shutter dozens of civil society organizations.
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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn formally registered as a foreign agent last month after it was revealed that he had done work that may have benefitted the Turkish government.
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Earlier this week, Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for $530,000 worth of lobbying work prior to the U.S. election that could have helped Turkey's government.
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"[Cambridge Analytica's] dirty little secret was that there was no one American involved in it, that it was a de facto foreign agent, working on an American election," Wylie said.
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He's been accused of taking millions in undisclosed cash from the party and lobbying in Washington on its behalf—but failing to register in the US as a foreign agent.
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Registering as a foreign agent in Russia requires broadcasters to place a content warning in front of all produced news, report funding to the government and be available for inspections.
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On Tuesday, he said that he had met with Maria Butina, who was indicted on charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent, on a 2015 trip to Russia.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge chastised both prosecutors and defense lawyers on Monday in the criminal case against Maria Butina, the Russian accused of illegally acting as a covert foreign agent.
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"We know today that the Trump presidential campaign was run by a Russian foreign agent now charged with conspiring against the United States," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.
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Skadden, Arps agreed in January to turn over the $4.6 million it was paid and retroactively register as a foreign agent as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.
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The special counsel's office unsealed an indictment charging Paul Manafort with conspiring to launder money, conspiracy against the US, and failing to register as a foreign agent, among other crimes.
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He is also accused of "acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, bulk cash smuggling, structuring monetary transactions and smuggling goods from the United States," the Justice Department said.
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Mr. Flynn, who initially did not file the paperwork to disclose this connection, belatedly registered with the government as a foreign agent after being forced out of the Trump administration.
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That implies that the Obama Justice Department and FBI concluded that Manafort was no longer an active foreign agent in early 2016 — before he (briefly) joined the Trump campaign. 20033.
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When he was hired by Mr. Alptekin, Mr. Flynn did not register as a foreign agent, as required by law when an American represents the interests of a foreign government.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Tuesday formally acknowledged his lobbying work for Ukraine's pro-Kremlin Party of Regions, retroactively registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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His dealings in Ukraine have also triggered an investigation by New York federal prosecutors who are reviewing whether or not Giuliani should've registered as a foreign agent, the Journal reports.
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Separately last year, a trip to Morocco was organized by a lobbyist who later was hired by Morocco as a $40,000-a-month foreign agent to represent its interests abroad.
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After being forced out of the Trump administration, Mr. Flynn belatedly filed paperwork as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of Turkey's interests in the United States.
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But Mr. Craig's guilt or innocence turned solely on the question of whether he deliberately misled Justice Department officials who were investigating whether he should register as a foreign agent.
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But he let the trial move forward, and the jury quickly convicted Mr. Kian on two counts: conspiracy to violate lobbying laws and failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Flynn has also acknowledged that he lobbied for the Turkish government during the election campaign without registering as a foreign agent, although he has not been charged in that case.
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Butina, 29, has been in jail -- first in Washington, now in Alexandria, Virginia -- since July 15, when she pleaded not guilty to the foreign agent charges in DC federal court.
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The Congressional Radio and TV Correspondents' gallery officially pulled a Russian network's media credentials on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after the organization was forced to register as a foreign agent.
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" Asked why Maffick has not registered as a foreign agent even though the company has contracted some workers in the US, Sparks told CNN, "We just incorporated seven months ago.
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Each of those connections creates a potential grid vulnerability that could be exploited deliberately by a foreign agent or tripped unintentionally by a U.S. citizen at work or at home.
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Barr, who installed Van Grack last year in a newly-created Justice Department post overseeing foreign-agent enforcement, still has confidence in the former Mueller prosecutor, two Justice officials said.
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His trial — the first of Mueller's federal probe — begins Tuesday in Virginia on charges of disguising overseas income, money laundering, tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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He ultimately got $530,000 for his efforts, but didn't register as a foreign agent during his lobbying work for this Turkish proxy and may have misrepresented his income from the contract.
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The U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act requires foreign governments, political parties and the lobbyists and public relations firms they hire in the United States to register with the Department of Justice.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges that include conspiring to launder money, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine government.
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That partner allegedly made "false and misleading" statements about the nature of the firm's work for Yanukovich, which were intended to avoid having to register the firm as a foreign agent.
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After Flynn's op-ed advocating for one of Turkey's main objectives raised red flags for the Justice Department, they informed him they were investigating his work as an undeclared foreign agent.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's only major independent pollster, the Levada Centre, has been designated as a "foreign agent", the Russian Justice Ministry said on Monday, two weeks ahead of nationwide parliamentary elections.
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"The recognition of the organization as a non-commercial body performing the functions of a foreign agent was established in an unscheduled document check," the Justice Ministry said in a statement.
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Manafort has been the subject of a longstanding investigation into his dealings in the Ukraine several years ago -- for which he did not file as a foreign agent until June 2017.
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Manafort has been the subject of a longstanding investigation into his dealings in the Ukraine several years ago – for which he did not file as a foreign agent until June 2017.
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Video Manafort is facing charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent and false statements related to his political work in Ukraine and loans he took out to purchase U.S. properties.
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Butina, a former graduate student at American University who publicly advocated for gun rights, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia.
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There's also the Espionage Act, which prohibits the disclosure of classified information, and the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which prohibits anyone from acting as a secret agent of a foreign power.
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Fabrizio's role in Manafort's Ukrainian lobbying wasn't revealed until a year after Trump was elected, however, when Manafort was required to file a foreign agent registration form with the Justice Department.
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Manafort is now the second former Trump associate to formally register himself as a foreign agent after Michael Flynn—Trump's former national security adviser—who did the same in early March.
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Case leads included, but were not limited to, espionage, counterespionage, and criminal activity, which could result in a terrorist, foreign agent, or a known criminal being potentially cleared for federal employment.
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Manafort is facing federal charges in the two courts of money laundering, tax and bank fraud, and failing to register as a foreign agent when he did lobbying work in Ukraine.
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Concord was charged with conspiring to defraud the US government by hiding its election-related activities and failing to register as a foreign agent trying to influence the US political process.
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A 2016 law has established an interagency unit to coördinate "counter-propaganda," and bills proposed in October expand requirements of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which regulates foreign influence in Washington.
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When asked if any foreign agent or country had a role in the Maldives crisis, Shareef said: "For my knowledge, the investigations at the moment are focused on local actors only".
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In March, almost a month after Flynn resigned from Trump's Cabinet, he disclosed over half a million dollars of work he did before Election Day as a foreign agent of Turkey.
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Giuliani is not a registered foreign agent and is currently under investigation for violating lobbying laws related to his role in pushing for the ouster of the US's ambassador to Ukraine.
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The law firm reached a settlement with the Justice Department in January, agreeing to register as a foreign agent and pay the Treasury Department $4.6 million over its work for Ukraine.
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The case involves violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), the 1938 law designed to prevent covert foreign influence that was more honored in the breach until Mueller came along.
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Flynn also assisted the government in the criminal investigation into his former business partner, Bijan Kian, who has been charged with working as an unregistered foreign agent for the Turkish government.
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John Kasich's 2016 GOP presidential campaign, said Thursday he no longer plans to lobby against Russia sanctions after news broke the previous day that he had registered as a foreign agent.
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Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent in March, which his lawyers said was done "to eliminate any potential doubt," though they also said their previous filings should have been sufficient.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has retroactively filed forms with the Department of Justice disclosing his work as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian political party, per The Washington Post.
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Whelan's detention came about two weeks after Maria Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist accused of being a foreign agent, pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy against the United States.
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Another set of documents in the motion explains why, according to his lawyers, two of the five counts "charge a single offense" regarding his issues with registering as a foreign agent.
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Between the two cases, he faces a slew of charges ranging from bank and tax fraud, to conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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Vitter, who has registered as a foreign agent, lobbied with several countries' ambassadors and the Treasury Department to ease punishing sanctions imposed on major aluminum firms tied to oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Mr. Manafort, 69, is in the meantime facing another trial next month on seven charges, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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The president spends his mornings watching TV and rage-tweeting; he has wreaked havoc with the government's competence and his party doesn't want you to know if he's a foreign agent.
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Separately, Maria Butina, a Russian who schmoozed with Republican presidential candidates and networked with top officials of the National Rifle Association, pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Russia: The Kremlin classified the country's best known opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny, as a "foreign agent," a label frequently used under President Vladimir Putin to stigmatize groups critical of his government.
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Russia: The Kremlin classified the country's best-known opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny, as a "foreign agent," a label frequently used under President Vladimir Putin to stigmatize groups critical of his government.
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In 2010 and 2011, APCO made more than 6900 contacts with federal and congressional figures for Tenex, including at least 10 at the State Department, its foreign agent disclosure reports show.
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Manafort is facing federal charges in Virginia and Washington, D.C., for tax and bank fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work done in Ukraine.
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He belatedly registered as a foreign agent for that work after being forced out of the Trump administration for misrepresenting his communications with the Russian ambassador to Vice President Mike Pence.
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In the third case, Gregory B. Craig, President Barack Obama's former White House counsel, was acquitted on charges of lying to avoid registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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Mr. Whelan's arrest came shortly after a Russian citizen accused of trying to influence prominent Americans, Maria Butina, was imprisoned after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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He has pleaded not guilty to a laundry list of charges, including from fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent for his lobbying work abroad.
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Gates also pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by making false statements regarding his status as a foreign agent, a charge initially proffered in the first indictment from Oct.
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Kian was convicted of illegally acting as a foreign agent and conspiring to hide his work from the Justice Department — fallout from pro-Turkey lobbying he did with Flynn in 2016.
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"Its dirty little secret was that there was no one American involved in it, that it was a de facto foreign agent, working on an American election," Wylie told the newspaper.
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It is a federal crime to try to influence the United States government at the request or direction of a foreign government, politician or party without registering as a foreign agent.
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In December, the Justice Department sent a letter to CGTN America, the American arm of state-run China Central Television, outlining the reasons why it should register as a foreign agent.
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She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent in December and thus became the first Russian citizen convicted in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Connie Schmett denied misleading any veterans or trying to hide her foreign agent status, saying her message to DeMoss was only meant to encourage him not to discuss the work on Facebook.
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Disgraced NSC adviser Michael Flynn, a key figure in the FBI's ever-widening Russia probe, retroactively registered as a foreign agent in March for his lobbying work on behalf of Turkish government.
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Flashback: Earlier this month, Manafort was reportedly registering as a foreign agent, his spokesman James Maloni told AP. But yesterday, Maloni said that is no longer happening, despite what he said before.
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Over the past nine months, BuzzFeed News has reported on the financial behavior of Manafort, former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, accused foreign agent Maria Butina, GOP operative Peter W. Smith, and others.
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The criminal information — the formal charging document — filed against Flynn doesn't mention the foreign agent registration filings, but they were included in the government's description of its case against Flynn on Friday.
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One ploy was Moscow's attempt to manipulate the National Rifle Association, including through the alleged activity of Maria Butina , who federal prosecutors recently charged with conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent .
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Levada Center, categorized as a "foreign agent" in 2016 due to its funding, will not publish any polling data ahead of the election to avoid punishment or fines related to the label.
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In March, Flynn filed paperwork with the Justice Department that identified him as a foreign agent, disclosing that he had done paid work for a firm that could have aided Turkey's government.
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Butina, 30, a former graduate student at American University who publicly advocated for gun rights, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller on money laundering, being an unregistered foreign agent and failing to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts.
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In both letters, NRDC denied that its cooperation with the Chinese government and advocacy against certain military training amounts to being a foreign agent, declining to provide documents the GOP lawmakers wanted.
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The justice department required RT to register as a foreign agent because it was employed as a weapon within the Russian government's campaign to influence the result of the 85033 presidential election.
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A story fit for a crime thriller Twenty-nine-year-old Russian Maria Butina allegedly spun a tangled web of sex, guns and deception to infiltrate US politics as a foreign agent.
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Ridiculous Spicer said Friday that President Trump was unaware that Flynn needed to register as a foreign agent due to his lobbying work on behalf of Turkey before becoming national security adviser.
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Forcing RT to register as a foreign agent is justified, but isn't the best way to counter the propaganda the channel -- or any other source of disinformation for that matter -- puts out.
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Russia issued a statement Thursday criticizing U.S. officials for their treatment of Maria Butina, a Russian woman living in the U.S. who has been charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Butina will plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to violate foreign agent laws, and she will cooperate with prosecutors as part of the agreement, according to court documents released Thursday.
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Yahoo fell $1.35, or 232 percent, to $219.78 after the company revealed that the data of at least 21 million users had been stolen by what it believed was a foreign agent.
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His unorthodox phone call with the leader of Taiwan appears to be the culmination of months of effort by Bob Dole, above, who acted as a foreign agent for the country's government.
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The arrest came 15 days after a Russian woman, Maria Butina, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, working with Russian officials to influence American political figures.
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The Washington one charges him with conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States, making false statements, and charges in connection with failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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Mr. Page, who had visited Moscow in July 2016 and left the campaign that September, a month before the application, was suspected of acting as a foreign agent for the Russian government.
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Concord Management and a related catering company were charged in the criminal case with conspiracy against the U.S. for seeking to frustrate the operation of U.S. election, foreign-agent, and visa laws.
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The Virginia trial will be followed by a second one in Washington in September in which Manafort is charged with money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
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The White House has denied that Trump knew about Flynn's lobbying work, though it acknowledged that lawyers for the transition team were informed he might have to register as a foreign agent.
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Butina is a Russian national who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, and Torshin is a Russian official with whom Butina is widely understood to have worked.
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Mr. Craig would have been required to register as a foreign agent if he and his law firm went beyond writing the report to trying to shape American public opinion about it.
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In fact, if the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were to establish a foreign agent for the purpose of producing and disseminating propaganda on behalf of itself, it would look exactly like SAPRAC.
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The comments come after the Justice Department decided that the company that runs the U.S. version of RT, the Russian state-owned outlet, must register with the U.S. as a foreign agent.
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A year ago, it was branded a "foreign agent" by the Russian ministry of justice after publishing a poll that showed declining support for Putin's United Russia party ahead of parliamentary elections.
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Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has retroactively admitted he was working as a foreign agent in the interests of the Turkish government in the months before he joined the Trump administration.
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And the Podesta Group, a Washington lobbying firm that worked with Manafort, filed paperwork Wednesday to register as a foreign agent, acknowledging that work Manafort reportedly oversaw could have benefitted the Ukrainian government.
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A federal judge would only have approved a warrant to wiretap Trump's phones if he or she had found probable cause that Trump had committed a federal crime or was a foreign agent.
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Flynn, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law, had pushed for the extradition of that cleric, Fethullah Gulen, to Turkey, whose president has accused him of backing a botched coup.
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Prosecutors allege that Craig made a series of false and misleading statements and omissions during this period that were aimed at avoiding a government determination that Skadden should register as a foreign agent.
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Butina pleaded guilty in December last year to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia by infiltrating a gun rights group and influencing U.S. conservative activists and Republicans.
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Ms. Butina, 30, a firearms advocate, pleaded guilty in December to a single charge of conspiring to act as a foreign agent without registering with the Justice Department, as is required by law.
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On Sunday, she was arrested by FBI agents and jailed, accused of being an unregistered foreign agent tasked with influencing US foreign policy toward Russia and directed by a senior Russian government official.
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In the same Politico article, Wiles said he didn't want to register as a foreign agent, but that Akhmetshin had told him it wouldn't be necessary, as he would be working for BakerHostetler.
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A few weeks ago, Russian national Maria Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring as a foreign agent in the US. Donald Trump has more than made good on his promise to reshape the judiciary.
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In March, Flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent, revealing that he was paid more than $500,000 to promote Turkish interests — all while serving as an adviser to Trump during the presidential race.
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Mueller has indicted Manafort in federal courts in Virginia and Washington D.C. with an array of allegations of money-laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, to bank and tax fraud.
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The U.S. made the broadcast network Russia Today register as a foreign agent earlier this week because intelligence officials said it tried to influence the 2016 election as a Kremlin network, per Reuters.
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In Washington, lobbyist Samuel Patten pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians and helping a pro-Russian Ukrainian businessman illegally purchase tickets to Trump's inauguration.
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"The areas this work will consider includes whether we follow allies in adopting a form of foreign agent registration and how we update our Official Secrets Acts for the 21st century," he said.
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In December, Hogg sarcastically offered "thoughts and prayers" to the National Rifle Association after Maria Butina, a Russian woman with ties to the group, pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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The Podesta Group has said it has fully cooperated with the special counsel's office and said it did not register as a foreign agent for its ECFMU work because that group misrepresented itself.
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Prosecutors were hoping to get her to plead guilty rather than go to trial, and had even agreed to drop the major charge against her: acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia.
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Butina was charged this summer for illegally acting as a foreign agent for Russia and accused of trying to create a back channel for Russia through activist groups, including the National Rifle Association.
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The Podesta Group has said it was fully cooperating with the special counsel's office and said it didn't register as a foreign agent for its ECFMU work because that group had misrepresented itself.
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Manafort surrendered himself to authorities last month after being indicted by the Justice Department for allegedly failing to disclose his work as a foreign agent for the government of Ukraine, among other charges.
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The two were charged in October -- in a related case in Washington, D.C. -- with conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money, false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements and other counts.
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At this point, Mueller's team had probable cause to believe Cohen had violated several laws: making false statements to a financial institution, money laundering, and two statutes acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Prosecutors allege that Manafort, conspiring with his former business partner Richard Gates and Russian associate Konstantin Kilimnik, illegally lobbied on behalf of a foreign government by failing to register as a foreign agent.
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S. companies, to disclose their activities through the domestic lobbying law — known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) — rather than register as a foreign agent, which comes with a much stricter disclosure regiment.
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Maria Butina, the Russian gun enthusiast accused of attempting to secretly penetrate American right-wing political circles, pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Thursday.
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In July, Mr. Rohrabacher admitted to meeting with Maria Butina, who was charged by federal prosecutors this summer with conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent, during his trip to Russia in 19903.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday fined opposition politician Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation 500,000 roubles ($7,536) for failing to identify itself as a foreign agent on social media, Navalny's spokeswoman said.
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Russia's Justice Ministry formally labeled the group a foreign agent in October after Navalny called on people to attend rallies that grew into Moscow's biggest sustained protest movement in years before fizzling out.
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The Justice Department has concluded that the evidence underlying multiple warrants authorizing the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page failed to show Page was a foreign agent, as the law requires.
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The 2015 trip was orchestrated by former NRA president David Keene and Maria Butina, a Russian native who pleaded guilty in federal court in December to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Washington (CNN)Unregistered Russian foreign agent Maria Butina will stay jailed in the US for yet another month, as she continues to help prosecutors with other cases following her guilty plea in December.
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Kian was convicted this summer of illegally acting as a foreign agent and conspiring to hide his work from the Justice Department -- fallout from pro-Turkey lobbying he did with Flynn in 2016.
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Prosecutors claimed that Mr. Craig concealed his role in helping Ukraine promote the report because registering as a foreign agent would have limited his prospects for further government service and damaged his reputation.
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However, the department did not say the assessment led to additional scrutiny toward RT. The department forced RT to register as a foreign agent last month, triggering new disclosure requirements for the organization.
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Separately, Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump's ousted national security adviser, acknowledged that he worked as a foreign agent last year representing the interests of the Turkish government in a dispute with the U.S. _____ 5.
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Prosecutors alleged that Craig made a series of false and misleading statements and omissions during this period that were aimed at avoiding a government determination that Skadden should register as a foreign agent.
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Twitter's ban comes as United States authorities are pressuring RT, formerly known as Russia Today, to register as a foreign agent under a World War II-era law intended to curtail Nazi propaganda.
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Congressional scrutiny of the N.R.A. has intensified since Ms. Butina pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, in a deal with the United States attorney's office in Washington.
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Mr. Whelan was arrested 15 days after a Russian woman, Maria Butina, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, working with Russian officials to influence American political figures.
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The big picture: Rafiekian, also known as Bijan Kian, was found guilty in July of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Turkish government and lying about it to the Justice Department.
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Manafort was indicted by Mueller's grand jury last October in Washington, D.C. The longtime GOP operative was charged with money laundering and acting as a foreign agent without registering with the Justice Department.
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Last week, Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, acknowledging that the work he did on behalf of a Turkish-owned company during the transition may have benefited the Turkish government.
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government, who was ousted in 2014.
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MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - RT America, the U.S. arm of the Kremlin-backed TV station RT, has registered as a "foreign agent" in the United States, the outlet's editor in chief said on Monday.
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WATCH: JUDGE REVOKES MANAFORT&aposS BAIL, SENDS HIM TO JAIL The onetime Trump campaign manager was indicted in October on charges that included conspiring to launder money and working as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Mueller's rare leveling of a criminal charge for a violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act against Manafort is a signal that it is in Flynn's best interests to work with the special counsel.
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Next month, he will be on trial again in D.C. where he is facing seven additional charges of ranging from conspiracy to defraud the United States to failing to register as a foreign agent.
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And it looks like Trump is majorly human this morning as he entrusted his campaign to a foreign agent with clear ties to Russians who wanted Trump sitting right where he is right now.
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Memorial, an organisation set up in the late 1980s to exhume the crimes of Stalinism and the Soviet state, has been declared a "foreign agent", a stigmatising label dug up from the Stalinist past.
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government, who was ousted in 23.
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Washington (CNN)Reports surfaced this week that former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had decided to register as a foreign agent due to past work he had done on behalf of foreign governments.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said he once met with the Russian woman who was indicted Monday on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Moscow.
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Lobbyists visited or contacted lawmakers and journalists dozens of times over the past two years, according to disclosures reviewed by VICE News, arguing it should register as a foreign agent, like Russia Today has.
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The initial July 2017 warrant for Cohen's Gmail account states that investigators suspected him of acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violating the federal law on foreign lobbying, the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Butina, a gun enthusiast, was arrested this summer for allegedly acting as an unregistered foreign agent working with a Kremlin-linked banker to influence Republican politicians through conservative groups and the National Rifle Association.
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The effort is meant in part to prevent another situation like that of Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who in 2017 retroactively registered as a foreign agent lobbying for Turkish interests.
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The effort is meant in part to prevent another situation like that of Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who in 6900 retroactively registered as a foreign agent lobbying for Turkish interests.
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Flynn is expected to take the witness stand against his former business partner, Bijan Kian, who faces a July trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent for the Turkish government.
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Our Founding Fathers were so frightened of a foreign agent being elected President that they enshrined their best effort to guard against it in Article II, Section 1, and Clause 5 of the Constitution.
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Prosecution for failing to register as a foreign agent hasn't been enforced in years, which is precisely why lobbyists on both sides of the political aisle take the risk not to disclose their status.
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But in the nine months since Butina, a 30-year-old gun rights enthusiast, was charged with conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent, many of the sensational details surrounding her case have crumbled.
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Sam Patten, a former associate of ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was charged on Friday for failing to register as a foreign agent for his involvement with a Ukrainian political party, Bloomberg reports.
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Manafort faces charges in two federal courts that include conspiracy to launder money, failure to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukraine government, bank fraud and tax fraud.
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She spoke about how she was convinced Craig's firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom didn't need to register as a foreign agent following her 2013 meeting with Craig and others from the law firm.
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It is a federal crime to lie to federal authorities, obstruct justice, launder money, fail to register as a foreign agent and conspire with a foreign power to influence the outcome of an election.
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He is scheduled to go on trial in a separate case next month in Washington, D.C., on charges including money laundering, witness tampering, lying to authorities and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Mercury registered with the Justice Department as a "foreign agent" working on behalf of "Lord Gregory Barker of Battle," not for Mr. Deripaska or his companies, which might have been prohibited under the sanctions.
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MBK media, an outlet financed by Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, reported that Navalny's group had been fined by the court for not identifying itself as a foreign agent on Instagram.
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Just months after helping to organize the trip, the lobbyist, Richard Smotkin, was hired by the government of Morocco as a $40,000-a-month foreign agent, according to filings with the Department of Justice.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyBiden leads 2202 pack in congressional endorsements Senators ask FDA to crack down on non-dairy milks, cheeses Lawmaker wants Chinese news outlet to register as foreign agent MORE and Rep.
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Manafort was arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington District Court in late 2017 on charges of making false statements, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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Fusion GPS hired a self-identified foreign agent Christopher Steele who then compiled a series of allegations on then candidate Donald Trump and his campaign team based on whispers from his contacts inside Russia.
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A California man has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent as part of an elaborate FBI sting operation targeting Chinese intelligence operatives working in the U.S., the Justice Department said Monday.
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He also argued that one of the two false statement charges in the indictment is defective because the law in question only prohibits false statements in filings with the Justice Department's foreign-agent office.
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Grassley has said that his interest in Manafort is related to enforcement of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) under both the Trump and Obama administrations, one of the stated purposes of the hearing.
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In a complaint letter to the Justice Department, Grassley branded Fusion GPS as an unregistered foreign agent, working together with a team of Russian lobbyists to repeal or water down the 22019 Magnitsky sanctions.
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Horowitz also reportedly found omissions and errors in documents seeking the wiretap for Page, who had served previously on the Trump campaign and was suspected of working as an unregistered foreign agent in 2016.
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RT's production company in the US, T&R Productions, was made to register in the US in late 2017 as a foreign agent for the Russian government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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In a letter to the Justice Department this week, Mr. Flynn's lawyer said that he did not initially register as a foreign agent because the firm that hired him was not a foreign government.
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"It took me a long time to figure out the guidelines [about what to submit in official FARA forms], and they're still ambiguous," said the person who registered as a foreign agent this year.
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Responding to Cuomo's questions about Russian meddling in the election, Conway dismissed the notion that any one from the Trump campaign would have reached out to a foreign agent for help in defeating Clinton.
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The second former foreign agent, who is still on K Street, said he had been offered four times his current salary to come to a firm and do FARA work, but turned it down.
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But his guilt or innocence turns on the narrow question of how he responded to Justice Department officials who were trying to determine whether he needed to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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But his guilt or innocence turns on the narrow question of how he responded to Justice Department officials who were trying to determine whether he needed to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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But whenever the government collects information on a target, it gets both sides of the conversation: the foreign agent—a diplomat, for example—and whatever potentially innocent person he or she is speaking with.
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Charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the previously pro-Russia Ukrainian government, bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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In late 2016, the agency was branded a "foreign agent" by the Russian Ministry of Justice after putting out a poll that showed declining support for Putin's United Russia party ahead of parliamentary elections.
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Ordered under house arrest as he awaits trial, Manafort has pleaded not guilty to a 12-count indictment on charges that include money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent of Yanukovich's government.
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Remember, he also signed that final FISA warrant he put his signature on it, and that was with the bought and paid for Hillary Clinton dossier Russian propaganda a foreign agent literally using Russian lies.
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One of the main issues in that case is whether Manafort, a longtime lobbyist and Republican consultant, failed to register as a foreign agent for his work on behalf of pro-Russian politicians from Ukraine.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has said RT needed to register as a "foreign agent" after accusations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in last year's presidential election in favour of President Donald Trump.
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Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates are facing charges including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government.
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BERLIN – An Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in a bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally in France, was charged in Germany on Wednesday with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder.
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But Flynn's lawyer has said that he asked Trump's transition team before the inauguration if Flynn should register as a foreign agent, and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show that the Justice Department on Jan.
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He became the second member of the Trump campaign to do so, after former national security adviser Michael Flynn registered as a foreign agent for more than $500,000 worth of lobbying on behalf of Turkey.
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REPORT: MUELLER PROBE EXPANDS TO DEMOCRATIC LOBBYIST TONY PODESTA&aposS DEALINGS Manafort and Gates were allegedly unregistered agents of a foreign principal, and were charged for making false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements.
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Manafort was fired as Trump's campaign chairman in August 2016, and has been investigated for his dealings in Ukraine several years ago, for which he did not register as a foreign agent until June 2017.
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The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), administered by the Department of Justice and other sources, provides evidence of both Democrats and Republicans having been hired as political consultants and lobbyists by pro-Russian Ukrainian kleptocrats.
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Two senior Republicans are raising red flags about a major environmental group&aposs ties to China, suggesting the organization is "at risk" of being "coerced" and might even need to register as a foreign agent.
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Clapper explained that the request from intelligence officials for unmasking of a US citizen is "legitimate" and essential to determine motives of the foreign agent being monitored -- distinct from "improper" leaking Why is this key?
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After his nomination, newspapers reported that Lighthizer had registered as a foreign agent, negotiating with the U.S. government on behalf of Brazil in a trade dispute over ethanol, and represented a state-owned Chinese company.
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To understand the risk of this, imagine what would have happened—again, this is routine—if the FBI started investigating Michael Flynn for his failure to register as a foreign agent for Russia and Turkey.
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President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will register with the US government as a foreign agent amid accusations that he took money from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, the Associated Press reports.
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On Thursday evening NBC News reported that Pence has been kept in the dark about "any investigation relating to Flynn's work as a foreign agent for Turkey," according to a source close to the administration.
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A federal judge said Friday that she will release former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who faces charges of money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent, from house arrest, according to Reuters.
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Manafort's attorneys had argued the special counsel was taking too broad a view of its powers and pushed to remove his indictment on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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For example, he's charged Manafort with laundering money, committing tax fraud, and failing to register as a foreign agent—with the goal, most legal observers think, of trying to pressure Manafort into cooperating with authorities.
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That indictment charged him with offenses including conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the Ukrainian government under pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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Lawyers knowledgeable about lobbying laws say there have been few cases against unregistered foreign agents, and some could not recall any case against a firm that filed as a lobbyist but not a foreign agent.
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RFE/RL said the Moscow court had found it guilty of not complying fully with the "foreign agent" law when it came to filing reports to the authorities and had fined it 100,000 roubles ($1,585).
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Manafort was previously investigated for failing to register as a foreign agent for the Ukraine work, and the FBI secured approval from the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor Manafort's communications.
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"Now, we are faced with the possibility -- and it looks like the very real probability -- the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid a foreign agent for information to try to smear Donald Trump," Conway said.
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A U.S.-based nonprofit that has been running a sprawling media campaign against Qatar as part of an ongoing feud among Persian Gulf countries has now registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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Masha Gessen Long before the Russian state declared the Levada Center, Russia's only reputable independent polling organization, to be a "foreign agent" in September, its director, Lev D. Gudkov, knew this was going to happen.
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The indictment alleges that Manafort and Gates concealed their scheme to avoid registering as a foreign agent in the United States by providing a "false and misleading" statement to two unnamed lobbying firms they retained.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday made his first comments on a U.S. court sentencing admitted Russian foreign agent Maria Butina to 18 months in prison, calling her treatment a travesty of justice.
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FARA does already include a "commercial exemption" for registering with the Justice Department, but there are ambiguities and limits on how it can be used, including when a foreign agent engages in any direct lobbying.
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First, they may have come upon Trump Tower phone calls if a targeted foreign agent was on the other end of the line — this method comes from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court.
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Its "secret court" was structured to circumvent the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard for searches and seizures (it was replaced by probable cause to believe someone might be a "foreign agent," which is broadly defined).
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In March, the Justice Department announced another step in its drive to reinvigorate FARA: naming Brandon Van Grack, a prosecutor from former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, to oversee enforcement of the foreign-agent law.
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Separately, he also faces legal questions over failing to properly register as a foreign agent for lobbying he did last year on behalf of Turkey while advising the Trump campaign, which is also a felony.
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Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union, but Vladimir Putin's regime has similar instincts — like labeling any foreign enterprise a "foreign agent" or denying hard evidence of doping among Russian athletes as an international conspiracy.
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In a criminal complaint that led to her indictment, the Justice Department accused her of secretly infiltrating American electoral politics as a foreign agent working on behalf of Russia and engaged in an anti-U.
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The Russian state-owned news outlet Sputnik has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, disclosing the terms of its radio broadcast agreement with a Washington, D.C.-area station, according to new disclosures.
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Earlier in March, Mr. Flynn filed papers acknowledging that he worked as a foreign agent last year representing the interests of the Turkish government, causing another uproar and more unfavorable headlines for the Trump administration.
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And the Justice Department requires you to register as a foreign agent if the "principal beneficiary" of the work you're doing is a foreign government, even if that foreign government is not the actual client.
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Levada Center, Russia's main independent pollster, announced Tuesday it will stop publishing opinion polls related to the presidential election out of anxiety about legal problems after being officially classified a "foreign agent" back in 2016.
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But when people make that argument, let&aposs not forget, we&aposre also talking about a private e-mail server that we know at least was hacked and classified information was found by a foreign agent.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RED TAPE STALLS BORDER AGENTS TRYING TO FILL DRUG-SMUGGLER TUNNELS A person or entity that works to influence the United States on behalf of another country is required to register as a foreign agent.
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Now, McClatchy reports the FBI, Justice Department and Treasury Department are investigating who paid Manafort for that work, how Manafort handled those payments and whether he was properly registered as a foreign agent at the time.
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He retroactively registered as a foreign agent in June for his firm's work in the Ukraine between 2012 and 2014 —when he received $17.1 million in funds from a party whose leader eventually fled to Russia.
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WASHINGTON — In 2017, a year before Maria Butina was arrested on charges of acting as a foreign agent, she had breakfast with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey I. Kislyak, at his residence in Washington.
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Almost a month after he resigned from Trump's Cabinet in March, former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn disclosed over half a million dollars of work he did before Election Day as a foreign agent of Turkey.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE (R-Calif.) once dined with the Russian woman who was indicted earlier this month on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Moscow, according to ABC News.
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The Russian law came in response to the Russian state-owned media outlet RT being forced to register as a foreign agent in the U.S. amid growing concerns about Moscow's efforts to interfere in American politics.
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The charges against Manafort in Washington include conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government under former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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Butina did not register as a foreign agent but nonetheless, prosecutors allege, infiltrated the National Rifle Association in an effort to get in the GOP's good graces so she could sway American policy in Russia's favor.
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Members of the State Duma, the Russian lower house of parliament, are examining legislation that would allow "foreign agent" status to be extended to individuals too, raising the possibility that RFE/RL's employees could be included.
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Patten, a GOP consultant linked to Manafort, pleaded guilty in August to failing to register as a foreign agent while lobbying for a Russia-linked political party in Ukraine and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's investigation.
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Kian was charged alongside Turkish national Kamil Ekim Alptekin last December with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey in connection with the now-defunct Flynn Intel Group's lobbying campaign against Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Finally, the U.S. government should curb the influence of dictators' Washington lobbyists by stepping up enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and adding a requirement to label events and trips paid by a foreign agent.
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While a money laundering case based on a failure to register as a foreign agent is not common, the allegations in the indictment, if proven, would appear to satisfy the requirements of the money laundering statute.
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Russian officials have said the change is a retaliatory response to the US government's request that RT, the Russian TV network, register its American arm as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign in August of 2016, and is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year federal prison sentence for financial fraud, failing to register as a foreign agent, and witness tampering.
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"What we do know is that one of the things that got him in jail was he was an unregistered foreign agent and he was a conduit between Russian oligarchs within Putin's inner circle," she said.
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Maria Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, entered the plea to a charge of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent at a hearing in Washington.
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Paul Manafort's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, filed in D.C. by special counsel Robert Mueller, which includes five charges against Manafort for failing to register as a foreign agent and for money laundering.
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What to watch: Giuliani's work with foreign clients may require him to file under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which mandates disclosure of attempts to influence public opinion or policy on behalf of foreign entities.
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Here, prosecutors say, the underlying activity is instead the failure by Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates to register as a foreign agent while conducting lobbying activities for Ukraine that were otherwise lawful in and of themselves.
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They accuse him of failing to disclose the extent of his Ukrainian work to the Justice Department's Foreign Agent Registration Act at a 2013 meeting and in a follow-up letter he wrote memorializing the meeting.
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He was troubled that a former N.R.A. president, David Keene, had been caught up in an investigation over his ties to Maria Butina, the Russian who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Some Democrats have asked whether Mr. Giuliani's role working in a number of foreign countries fits the legal definition of lobbying and requires him to register as a foreign agent, something Mr. Giuliani has not done.
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Manafort also pleaded not guilty last week in Washington to related charges, including conspiracy to launder money, and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government of former President Viktor Yanukovich.
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Mr. Manafort faces a second criminal trial next month in Washington on seven other charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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But by the time Craig was finally charged in April by the DC office, the statute of limitations for the initial matter for which he was investigated -- failure to register as a foreign agent -- had expired.
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The government concluded that AMI did not need to register as a foreign agent because, even though the publisher "sought out comments" from a Saudi advisor before publishing, there was no financial deal with the Saudis.
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Maria Butina, 31, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court last December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia by infiltrating a gun rights group and influencing conservative activists and Republicans.
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Flynn acted as a foreign agent representing the interests of Turkey's government in exchange for more than $500,000 during last year's presidential campaign even as he was advising Trump, the New York Times said on Friday.
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His charges, announced on the same day as those against Manafort and Papadopoulos, included counts of conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, lying to investigators and failing to register as a foreign agent, among others.
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Mr. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, registered as a lobbyist last year but did not file papers with the Justice Department registering as a foreign agent, providing a fuller understanding of his role, until Tuesday.
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Javits had registered as a foreign agent to work for the public relations firm Ruder & Finn representing the airline Iran Air and the Iranian government, which was headed at the time by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
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Mr. Manafort also faces a second criminal trial next month in Washington on other charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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As part of the settlement, the law firm agreed to register retroactively as a foreign agent for Ukraine in addition to paying the government $4.6 million, representing the money it earned from its work in Ukraine.
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Because that means that a federal judge, independently elected, has found probable cause that the president, or people on his staff, have probable cause to have broken the law or to have interacted with a foreign agent.
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Manafort is facing separate indictments in Washington and Virginia, with charges ranging from conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for the former pro-Russia Ukrainian government, to bank and tax fraud.
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Prosecutors found a law to use against Khusyaynova, charging her with conspiracy to defraud the United States by acting as an undisclosed foreign agent, in violation of requirements that such agents register and publicly declare their ambitions.
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A source familiar with the filing told CNN earlier Friday that the Trump transition was notified Flynn would likely file the foreign agent paperwork and that the White House Counsel's Office was later notified after the inauguration.
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Alptekin said he has not talked to Flynn or his lawyers about the foreign agent filing, but said he consulted with a lawyer about the matter who did not believe it was necessary to file the registration.
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And Flynn's own lawyer contacted the White House more than once during the transition to let them know that the Justice Department was looking into Flynn's lobbying and that he might register retroactively as a foreign agent.
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Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
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Butina pleaded guilty in December last year to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia, prompting Moscow to accuse Washington of forcing her to confess to what it described as ridiculous charges.
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In April, Akhmetshin registered to lobby — though not as a foreign agent — on behalf of the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, a Delaware nonprofit that rented office space in the same building as BakerHostetler's Washington offices.
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Yazlovsky in the document noted that his company did previously have contracts with ANO TV-Novosti, the Russian media outlet that owns RT, but didn't see the need to file under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP agreed to turn over $4.6 million, the amount it was paid for the report, and retroactively register as a foreign agent as part of the deal with the U.S. Justice Department.
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U.S. intelligence officials accuse the Kremlin of using Russian media organizations it finances to influence U.S. voters, and this week Washington required Russian state broadcaster RT to register a U.S.-based affiliate company as a "foreign agent".
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Flynn came under fire once against in March when he registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, after revealing that his lobbying firm had done work last year that may have benefited the Turkish government.
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But he is charged with bank fraud, filing false tax returns, conspiring against the United States by plotting to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the former Ukraine government.
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As part of that investigation, Manafort is facing indictments in federal courts in Virginia and Washington on a variety of charges from money-laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, to bank and tax fraud.
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The former Trump aide, who was ordered to jail last month for violating the terms of his bail agreement, also awaits separate charges in Washington, D.C., involving money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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But this is real life, and the 29-year-old Russian is accused of acting as a foreign agent in the United States and allegedly using sex and deception to build her network of influential international connections.
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Washington (CNN)Maria Butina, who is accused by US prosecutors of being a foreign agent of Russia, was involved in meetings with US government officials in 2015, according to a think tank official who arranged the meetings.
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Federal prosecutors have charged Craig with lying about the nature of the work and whether he was required to register as a foreign agent, though he has not been charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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The 30-year-old Russian national initially pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent after prosecutors accused her of infiltrating political groups like the National Rifle Association to bolster Russian interests.
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But last week's arrest of Maria Butina, a 29-year-old Russian woman who was charged with acting as a foreign agent for the Russian government at the direction of a senior Russian official, was not mentioned.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court fined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Thursday for violating a "foreign agent" law, a move the U.S.-government sponsored broadcaster described as the latest step in a campaign against its operations.
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The designation subjected RFE/RL to the same requirements as foreign-funded non-governmental organizations which, since 2012, must include in any information they publish or broadcast to Russian audiences a mention of their "foreign agent" status.
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He is scheduled to be sentenced in D.C. federal court on Friday for failing to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent for a political party in Ukraine, a charge he pleaded guilty to in August.
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The indictments against Paul Manafort, (the federal case charging failure to register as a foreign agent and money laundering, and the state case alleging tax and bank fraud), were predictable in the trajectory of his professional behavior.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department accused Moscow of stifling press freedom and media independence on Friday after a Russian court fined the U.S. government-sponsored Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for violating Russia's "foreign agent" law.
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During that period, Mr. Manafort never registered as a foreign agent with the United States Justice Department — as required of those seeking to influence American policy on behalf of foreign clients — although one of his subcontractors did.
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"We can't speculate at this point (on) the effect of this new law since no news organization has been specifically named as a foreign agent and the restrictions to be imposed have not been announced," Kent said.
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Zarrab is now facing prosecution in New York on money-laundering charges and has hired an impressive stable of white-shoe attorneys, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose law firm is a registered foreign agent for Turkey.
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The discovery of the lobbying deal with Alptekin, which ultimately generated about $450,000 for Flynn's firm, helped put Flynn in legal jeopardy because he didn't initially report his work as a foreign agent to the Justice Department.
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The new accusation, related to a property Manafort owns in the Washington suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, comes on top of the indictment against Manafort last October for money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Manafort is facing charges including money laundering, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department as part of Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Craig, who made the unusual decision of taking the stand in his own defense, argued in court that he was not required to register as a foreign agent and said he did not lie to the government.
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Russia's state-owned media outlet, RT, has announced that it will comply with US government demands to register as a "foreign agent" of the Russian government, amid controversy over Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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There has been widespread speculation that Russia seized Mr. Whelan to exchange him for Maria Butina, a Russian citizen who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent and influence N.R.A. officials and prominent Republicans.
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In return, Mr. Mueller agreed to drop five other counts, which included money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, and not to retry Mr. Manafort on 10 counts over which last month's jury deadlocked.
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The Justice Department's National Security Division, which oversees FARA, sent a letter to Mr. Cohen requesting information about the arrangement, then urged him to register as a foreign agent, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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American officials have waged a global offensive against Huawei, telling other countries that allowing a Chinese company to build the world's next generation of wireless networks would be akin to handing national secrets to a foreign agent.
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American officials have waged a global offensive against Huawei, telling other countries that allowing a Chinese company to build the world's next generation of wireless networks would be akin to handing national secrets to a foreign agent.
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Being a foreign agent is not a crime, per se; whether the relationship is criminal depends on the nature of the actions the operative takes (including whether he has disclosed his agency, as required by federal law).
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It should not be forgotten that Mr. Orban, once a liberal, was educated at Oxford with scholarship help from the same George Soros he now pillories as a foreign agent intent on fomenting dissent against the government.
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The Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice, which hands out free needles and condoms in southern Moscow, now has to staple a small label to its plastic bags saying "Foreign Agent" as required by law.
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In the Mueller probe, Manafort was charged with multiple counts of tax fraud, bank fraud, failure to report foreign bank accounts, false statements, money laundering, failure to register as a foreign agent, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
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In addition to looking into the RT funds, the House committee is scrutinizing Flynn's work last year as a foreign agent hired to promote Turkish government views by a Netherlands-based company owned by a Turkish businessman.
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Butina is accused of trying to make inroads into the Republican Party through the NRA to advance Russian interests in U.S. politics, with subsequent charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent added after her arrest.
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He set up an organization called the Internet Research Agency to try to troll the protests into the ground, doing things like posting comments on social media accusing opposition leader Alexei Navalny of being a foreign agent.
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" Here's another problematic story for the Trump administration: "Michael Flynn, who was President Donald Trump's former national security adviser until being fired last month, has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for $530,000 worth of lobbying work before Election Day that may have aided the Turkish government," per the AP. "Paperwork filed Tuesday with the Justice Department's Foreign Agent Registration Unit said Flynn and his firm were voluntarily registering for lobbying from August through November that 'could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.
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The indictment lays out 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements and several charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
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Michael Flynn, the Trump administration's former national security advisor who resigned in February, also retroactively registered as a foreign agent last month after it emerged that Flynn had been paid more than $500,000 to advocate for Turkey's interests.
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That's in part because prosecutors in the Manhattan US Attorney's office are wary about the viability of cases concerning violations of what's known as the Foreign Agent Registrations Act after having observed how other recent cases have fared.
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Flynn's former lobbying firm, the Flynn Intel Group, was paid $530,000 to represent Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman, during the final months of the US presidential campaign, according to foreign agent registration paperwork filed with the Justice Department.
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For example, the definitions of what constitutes a "foreign agent" or "political activity" are purposely broad in order to capture all individuals who may be working to influence American politicians (and ordinary citizens) on behalf of foreign parties.
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In addition to pushing Silicon Valley to target RT and Sputnik, the U.S. government recently forced RT to officially register as a foreign agent, meaning that RT operates on behalf of Russia, not as an independent media organization.
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Federal prosecutors in New York are considering criminal charges against Greg Craig, a former Obama White House counsel, as part of a investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent, sources told CNN on Friday.
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Flynn registered as a foreign agent in March of 2017, after it was revealed that he had hidden the fact that he had received large sums of money from the Turkish government; failing to register is a felony.
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MOSCOW — Russian officials declared the Levada Center, the country's only major independent pollster, a "foreign agent" on Monday, two weeks before nationwide parliamentary elections and days after a poll showed sliding support for the governing party, United Russia.
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"I made a statement about Mr. Flynn acting as a foreign agent in the White House," Sullivan said, adding that it was an incorrect statement because Flynn had stopped lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government in 2016.
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The papers also revealed that Smotkin, who previously lobbied for Comcast, was later hired by the Moroccan government on a $40,000 a month lobbying contract, according to his registration as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice.
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So far, members of the administration have gotten away with violating the emoluments clause, attempting to derail an FBI investigation, lying on security clearance forms, failing to report their work as a foreign agent, and many other things.
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Questions have been swirling about Manafort's representation of Yanukovych for years, but recent reports have intensified the drum beats about whether he acted unlawfully as a "foreign agent" by lobbying for a foreign leader without registering that activity.
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Russia: Experts believe the arrest in Russia of U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, accused of espionage, is meant to retaliate for the U.S. arrest of Russian Maria Butina, who has pleaded guilty to being a foreign agent (The Hill).
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"Between the criminal case and the registration we chose the latter, and we congratulate the American freedom of speech and everyone who still believes in it," RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said of the foreign agent designation.
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Last month, RT said the Justice Department had demanded that a private company affiliated with RT America register as a "foreign agent" — a term that dates back to a law originally enacted in 1938 to deter Nazi propaganda.
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To bring felony criminal charges, however, the DOJ must not only prove that someone acted as a foreign agent without registering but that they knew about having to register and didn't — a high burden of proof to meet.
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Prosecutors said that Craig feared that acknowledging he was required to register as a foreign agent would damage his reputation, and characterized communications between Craig and journalists about the report as public relations work, which would require registration.
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Another search warrant showed that prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, were investigating Mr. Cohen for other crimes growing out of the Russia inquiry, including failure to register as a foreign agent and money laundering.
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Perhaps the most reliable polling organization on Russian politics, the center just announced it would sit out the election, having been labeled a "foreign agent" for receiving grants from abroad, and thus barred by law from political activity.
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U.S. intelligence officials have accused the Kremlin of using Russian media organizations it finances to influence U.S. voters, and Washington has since required Russian state broadcaster RT to register a U.S.-based affiliate company as a "foreign agent".
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Russian officials have made clear that the regulations were tit-for-tat retaliation for a move by United States officials to register RT, the state-run Russian news group formerly known as Russia Today, as a foreign agent.
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Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey, is among the lawmakers asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to require Al Jazeera to register as a foreign agent — a designation that could limit its access to American officials and facilities.
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Mr. Navalny's organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, has been classified as a "foreign agent," the Justice Ministry declared in a brief statement, a label frequently used under President Vladimir V. Putin to stigmatize groups critical of the Kremlin.
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Flynn's lawyers noted that while Gates pleaded guilty to embarking on a series of financial and foreign agent-related crimes with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Flynn pleaded guilty to just one count of making false statements.
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"Now, we are faced with the possibility — and it looks like the very real probability — the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and the Clinton campaign paid a foreign agent for information to try to smear Donald Trump," Conway said.
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Prosecutors said that Mr. Craig, a former White House counsel in the Obama administration, deceived federal officials about his work for the government of Ukraine in 2012 because he did not want to register as a foreign agent.
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The defense team argues that the prosecutors, which now come from both Mueller's team and the DC US Attorney's Office, tweaked their arguments about Concord defrauding the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department's foreign agent registration law.
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After Mr. Flynn was fired in February, he disclosed that he'd been working as a foreign agent throughout the campaign, collecting more than $500,000 in consulting fees from a Turkish company with ties to both Ankara and Moscow.
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To make the case that Mr. Page was probably a foreign agent, they relied on historical information about his contacts with Russians before 2016 and claims about his 2016 interactions with Russians that came from the Steele dossier.
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Even some Republicans pointed out that if an eavesdropping warrant had been approved, it would mean that a judge was convinced that someone in Mr. Trump's circle might have committed a crime or acted as a foreign agent.
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The White House said that Mr. Trump did not know that Mr. Flynn was acting as a foreign agent when Mr. Trump appointed him national security adviser, a position that gave him access to classified meetings and materials.
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The trial is one of two at which Manafort must defend himself against a number of charges ranging from bank fraud to failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work for pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
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The Justice Department has asked a company that supplies services to the US affiliate of the state-owned Russian news outlet Russia Today to register as a foreign agent, according to an article published Monday on RT's website.
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Jackson denied Craig's motion to dismiss the other count, which alleges that he had knowingly engaged in a scheme to mislead the Justice Department's FARA unit in order to avoid registering as a foreign agent and making related disclosures.
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Funny thing is, since January, Hohlt has been a registered foreign agent, earning roughly $430,000 from Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry to lobby on behalf of Trump's favorite kingdom in the Middle East, the Center for Public Integrity reported Thursday.
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After Mueller's office closed, Van Grack had continued to shepherd the Flynn case as a special assistant U.S. attorney in Washington while also serving in a newly created Justice Department position overseeing enforcement of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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In an insult to the millions of Stalin's victims, the Kremlin has recently called Memorial, a long-established human-rights organisation set up to draw attention to the crimes of Stalin's regime, a "foreign agent"—a synonym for "traitor".
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I mean, if you look at what the Clinton campaign did, they hired a foreign agent in Chris Steele to make contacts with his Russian government contacts, and his Russian friends, which is Oleg Deripaska and the Russian government.
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Flynn is in up to his neck in terms, not just of possible crimes involving his speeches and whether or not he registered as a foreign agent, which he should have and didn't," Bernstein said on CNN's "New Day.
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But it wasn't clear whether Meadows was accusing Cohen of failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, or of failing to report the work on an official form that Cohen filled out before his appearance.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has required RT America, which has ties with the Kremlin-backed TV station RT, to register as a "foreign agent" after accusations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in last year's presidential election.
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Federal prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday unsealed charges against Bijan Kian, who worked as a partner at the now-defunct Flynn Intel Group, for working as an unregistered foreign agent.
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The judge also criticized the company for going too far in arguing what the special counsel has to prove in this conspiracy case, which Friedrich notes is different from cases centered solely on violating foreign agent or election laws.
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If, however, the prosecutors are smart — and they are — they will dispense with trying Manafort on his wealth, and get on with presenting evidence of tax evasion, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent under FARA.
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Separately, in February, a prosecutor in Ukraine reportedly reached out to Mueller to offer to cooperate with the investigation into Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman who Mueller indicted in October 2017 for failing to register as a foreign agent.
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These are only some of the most high-profile cases and don't include Iran, where if one advocates for environmental protections one will be named a "bio-terrorist" or labeled a foreign agent and end-up in Evin prison.
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RFE/RL said the court found it guilty on Thursday of not complying fully with Moscow's foreign agent law and fined it 100,000 rubles ($1,585), which the broadcaster described as the latest step in a campaign against its operations.
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Citing the international money laundering provision, the indictment alleges that Manafort and Gates conspired to transfer money into or out of the United States with the intent to promote the crime of failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Kushner's security clearance does suggest that, at the very least, the FBI does not consider him to be a foreign agent or untrustworthy with government secrets, said Steven Mulroy, a professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Memphis.
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The prominent law firm agreed earlier this year to register as a foreign agent and paid a $4.6 million settlement in the case over questions on whether it had misrepresented its work for the Ukrainian politicians to federal investigators.
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Mark Siljander pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and violating FARA by working as an unregistered foreign agent for the Islamic American Relief Agency, a Missouri charity that the government alleged sent money to designated terrorists, among other violations.
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On Tuesday, Maria Butina, a 29-year-old Russian whose name was spelled Mariia in court papers, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Russian Federation.
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The N.R.A. also paid David Keene, a former president, $40,000 last year, even as he was enmeshed in the scandal involving his one-time business partner Maria Butina, a Russian who pleaded guilty to being a covert foreign agent.
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Several legal experts predict that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is fighting Mueller's charges on tax and bank fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent, might take his case to the high court if convicted.
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The records also include FBI reports showing that Flynn's son Michael Jr. delivered information and data from the consulting firm to the firm's lawyers on several occasions as they were preparing foreign-agent filings that prosecutors say were untruthful.
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Avenue Strategies Global, a firm with ties to Trump that represents Qatar, on Friday submitted a complaint to the Justice Department, alleging that the group was violating the law by not registering itself as a foreign agent under FARA.
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"This is the first time the public has seen clear evidence of at least an attempt by the Trump campaign to obtain [information] … from a possible foreign agent that would interfere with the Hillary Clinton campaign efforts," Warner said.
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The Russian firm between 2009 and 2011 hired two Washington consulting firms to help it win Obama administration approval for policies and contracts that opened up billions in new nuclear fuel sales for TENEX, foreign agent registration records show.
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Hamid Baidinejad, a member of the nuclear negotiating team, posted on Instagram a defense of fellow member Abdul Rasoul Durri Esfahani, who was criticized as a foreign agent by hardline websites, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
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The defense has asked Ellis to postpone the Alexandria trial until after another trial Manafort faces in Washington on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his Ukraine-related lobbying work.
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The 29-year-old Russian woman accused of covertly working as a foreign agent while living in the United States allegedly offered to have sex with an unnamed individual in return for a job in the United States, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Manafort faces two indictments accusing him of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work he did for the pro-Russia government of Ukraine, bank fraud and other offenses.
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Paul Manafort, who ran Trump's presidential campaign for several months last year, was charged in October with conspiring to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine have also pursued measures to limit the influence of Russian media in recent years, and in September the US Department of Justice asked Moscow-based RT to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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Last month, Butina was arrested and jailed as an unregistered foreign agent for carrying out a years-long campaign to infiltrate US conservative organizations, which prosecutors say was directed by a high-ranking Russian official and funded by a Russian billionaire.
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A California financier and donor to Trump's inauguration agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of falsifying records to hide his work as foreign agent when lobbying "high-level U.S. government officials," the Justice Department said in a release Tuesday.
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After the DOJ notified RT of its intentions, the Russian embassy in the U.S. wrote in a statement on Facebook that "the American authorities have...created a dangerous precedent" by requesting a Russian outlet to register as a foreign agent.
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Ms. Butina, who became embroiled in accusations of meddling in the 2016 American election and was imprisoned after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, thanked Russian officials and the local news media for campaigning for her release.
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"In fact, not labeling you as a foreign agent is misleading because you're presenting yourself to the American people as somebody who's independent and thinking your own thoughts but you're not, you're getting your thoughts from a foreign government," he said.
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Beyond that, Manafort appears to be in legal trouble because of his curious finances (per the Wall Street Journal, he's being looked at for money laundering) and for initially failing to register as a foreign agent for his Ukrainian work.
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In the Washington, D.C. case, which has a September trial date, he is accused of conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
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The idea that the Democratic Party would pay millions of dollars to a foreign agent to go to Russia to gather dirt on President Trump, then candidate Trump, allows the Democratic Party to be manipulated by Russian operatives inside of Russia.
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Flynn is a central figure in Mueller's investigation because of conversations he had with Kislyak and because he waited until March to retroactively register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for work he did for a Turkish businessman.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Friday defended the Trump administration's handling of the matter, even as he acknowledged to reporters that the White House was aware of the potential that Flynn might need to register as a foreign agent.
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A "principal foreign agent" of the United States, as one Senate report referred to him, the billionaire playboy made a fortune (more than $100 million between 1970 and 19893 alone) from commissions negotiating arms deals with his native Saudi Arabia.
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The communication appears to be an attempt to show his lobbying work for the Ukrainian government took place in Europe alone, and therefore he did not need to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.
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Specifically, they raised concerns that NRDC reports and other statements "consistently praise" China&aposs environmental initiatives, and that their "need to maintain access to Chinese officials" has influenced their work in the U.S. -- and may require registration as a foreign agent.
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The source close to the administration, who requested anonymity as the White House denies the story, is now saying that Pence and his team were not made aware of any investigation relating to Flynn's work as a foreign agent for Turkey.
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MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Russian media outlet RIA Global LLC will be required to register as a foreign agent in the U.S., its partner media company Sputnik said on Wednesday, citing a letter from the U.S. Justice Department.
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He reportedly didn't disclose payments from Russia's state-run TV network on his security clearance form, didn't register as a foreign agent while he did some indirect lobbying work for Turkey and never disclosed he had talks with Russia's ambassador. 3.
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Pence claimed in a March interview with Fox News that it was the "first I'd heard of" Flynn earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for a Turkish businessman, which ultimately prompted Flynn to register as a foreign agent.
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The lawmakers cited a New York Times report from last month that found Bolton appeared via video at a 2013 gun rights event organized by Maria Butina, who has been charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Moscow.
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Whelan's arrest came weeks after alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to acting as a foreign agent for Russia in the United States, fueling speculation that the Kremlin detained Whelan in an act of retaliation.
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The trial in Alexandria will be the first of two criminal trials for Manafort, who is also facing separate charges in Washington, D.C. Among the charges are money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department.
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The often unenforced FARA law was thrust into the spotlight by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who last October charged President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, with failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine's pro-Russia government.
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Bizarrely, he was removed from his post on live TV in 2013 while interviewing with a news anchor for RT, a station recently made to register as a Russian foreign agent in the U.S. for influencing the 2016 presidential elections.
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Prosecutors also said they expect to call another Manafort attorney, Melissa Laurenza, to testify against him about false statements he allegedly asked her to file with the Justice Department related to his retroactively registering as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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President Trump's transition team was reportedly told that former national security adviser Michael Flynn would likely have to register as a foreign agent before stepping into the job despite White House claims that Trump was unaware of his lobbying work.
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In North Carolina on Thursday, Mr. Trump was informed of the newest such report: an Associated Press article that, citing emails, showed that Mr. Manafort's firm had orchestrated a pro-Ukrainian lobbying campaign in Washington without registering as a foreign agent.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department charged a Russian national who, along with her mentor, aimed to set up backchannel communications during the presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with conspiring against the US as a foreign agent.
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And so, authorities say, she got cozy with the gun rights organization to in turn get cozy with the GOP, all in an effort to push Russian interests in the United States -- without registering or identifying herself as a foreign agent.
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"We have a clear link to Russia — you have a campaign who hired a law firm, who hired Fusion GPS, who hired a foreign agent, who then got information from the Russians on the other campaign," the Republican chairman said.
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The former Trump campaign chairman is accused of bank fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, regarding his lobbying work for pro-Russia political parties in Ukraine prior to the 2016 election.
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The White House acknowledged earlier this month that Trump's transition team was aware Flynn engaged in work that would likely require him to register his consulting firm as a foreign agent before he was tapped to serve as national security adviser.
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In addition to weighing Butina's actions, the judge will also look to hand down a sentence that would discourage others from following in her footsteps, at a time when the Justice Department is looking closer at unregistered foreign agent cases.
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Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, who married Papadopoulos in March, said that Mueller's team had said they possessed evidence that her husband worked for Israel without registering as a foreign agent during his time as an energy consultant before joining the Trump campaign.
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Registering as a Foreign Agent in the U.S. technically shouldn't have any affect on content, but the move outraged Russian officials and the leadership of RT all the same, with RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan scorning the U.S. in response.
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On the one hand, you could imagine an obvious example where someone tells you, "Go deliver this to this person," and it turns out that the person you're giving it to is a foreign agent, and [the package] is secret intelligence.
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Flynn had done over half a million dollars' worth of work as a foreign agent of Turkey, including writing an op-ed in strong support of the country — and against the cleric in question — that was published on Election Day.
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" P.S. "Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in the federal case charging him with money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Ukraine.
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Butina, a Russian gun rights activist who was charged last month with acting as a foreign agent in the US, was interviewed in April by the Intelligence Committee as part of its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
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It's unclear how exactly they will convey that, but China Daily, a Chinese state-run media operation that's registered as a foreign agent in the US, does it with an explanation on its Facebook and About Us pages, the Hill notes.
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She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent in Washington, D.C., becoming the first Russian citizen to do so since U.S. intelligence agencies said the Russian government had attempted to undermine the 2016 U.S. election on Trump's behalf.
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Manafort is accused of a wide range of offenses, from conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government, to bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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Before Manafort was indicted, Domin also submitted a secret court declaration in a successful bid to force testimony from a lawyer who helped prepare what prosecutors say were false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration Act filings sent to the Justice Department.
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He said he wants to show the jury documents related to the firms demonstrating that the government's interpretations of the foreign-agent law are vague and typically delivered privately, depriving people like Manafort of clear advice on when registration is required.
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The roster, released on Wednesday as part of a questionnaire distributed to potential jurors in the case, includes witnesses likely to testify at Manafort's trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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Support for Moldovan oligarch The investigative outlet ProPublica reported Friday that Grenell worked in the US on behalf of a leading Moldovan politician, according to a person familiar with the relationship and another individual, but never registered as a foreign agent.
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Early last month, a federal court jury in Washington took only four hours to acquit former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig on a charge of scheming to deceive the Justice Department's foreign-agent registration unit about his work for Ukraine.
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In 23, Maria Butina, a Russian who liked to pose provocatively with rifles and who later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent, began appearing at high-level N.R.A. functions, claiming to be a gun rights activist.
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