White Collar Crime: Federal and Ohio: Foreign Agent Registration Act

Registration of Foreign Agents

Exemptions to FARA include those agents of foreign principals who have already registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.

Lobbying Disclosure Act

18 U.S.C. § 951 provides criminal penalties for anyone, other than a diplomat, to operate as an agent of a foreign government without first notifying the Attorney General, unless the agent is engaged in legal commercial transaction. This statute is aimed at foreign government controlled agents engaged in non-political activities.

Trump campaign donor trial for failure to register as a foreign agent for United Arab Emirates started. 9/19/22

NBC News 2/18/21

CNN 10/20/20

Politico 3/18/21

4/19/19

LA Times 3/2/18

CNN 11/13/17

ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT OF 1938, AS AMENDED

NOTIFICATIONS TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BY AGENTS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

US Dept. of Justice

Congressional Research Service Report 12/4/17

CRS Report 6/30/20

Law Library of Congress Report 2023

Just Security 4/2017

Superseding indictment 10/12/23

3/19

12/23/20

CNBC 12/15/20

2/20/18

2/16/18

Special Counsel Mueller's indictment of 2/16/18 of the Russian Internet Research Agency for conspiracy to defraud the US Government by meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Indictment serves notice that forfeiture will sought as a part of any sentence.

Mr. Papadopoulos admitted that in a January interview with the F.B.I., he lied about his contacts with a Russian professor, whom he knew to have “substantial connections to Russian government officials,” according to court documents. Mr. Papadopoulos told the authorities that the conversation occurred before he became an adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign. In fact, he met the professor days after joining the campaign. He pled guilty to violating 18 USC Sec. 1001. 10/30/17

CNN 8/21/18 - including bank fraud and tax fraud.

The transcript.

Politico 9/5/2019

Bijan Rafiekian,was convicted of failing to register as a foreign agent.

CRS Report 10/9/19

8/2020

CNN 12/23/20

CNN 7/13/21 Stephen Calk, the former chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, was found guilty of conspiring with onetime Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to exchange risky bank loans for a high-ranking position in the presidential administration.

Justice Dept press release 9/20/21

MSNBC 9/19/21 Has a good discussion of the elements of the crime of making a false statement to the FBI.

Michael Sussman found not guilty of lying 6/1/22

NBC News 10/18/22