The federal prosecution of Paul Manafort for failing to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) in connection with his work for the Government of Ukraine has certainly elevated the ...

The Justice Department's policing of foreign influence is bedeviling Trumpworld figures. Rudy Giuliani and the Trump ally Tom Barrack caught prosecutors' attention over foreign dealings. Behind the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of business and public affairs. As Joshua Ian Rosenstein, a FARA specialist at Sandler Reiff Lamb ...

Aggressive enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) continued last year, and that trend shows no signs of receding in 2024. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2023 filed its ...

FARA FRIDAY: Advocacy groups representing journalists, civil rights groups, nonprofits, FARA practitioners and the business community alike roundly eviscerated the Justice Department’s first proposed ...

April 01, 2025 - In a memorandum issued on Feb. 5, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi outlined changes to certain Department of Justice ("DOJ") enforcement priorities. Although much of the focus has ...

FARA FRIDAY: Attorney General Pam Bondi moved quickly this week to put her stamp on DOJ’s approach to federal foreign influence laws, ordering the rollback of an enforcement crackdown that began ...

The trend in aggressive enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) enforcement continued in 2022 with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) first affirmative civil enforcement lawsuit in ...