Ki Hong, Charles Ricciardelli and Alexa Santry of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP discuss the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and confusion surrounding the commercial exemption.

Enforcement actions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act were 'rare' for decades, according to an inspector general's report, before Russian interference in the 2016 election spurred more action.

Gallagher’s legislation, the Retroactive Foreign Agents Registration Act, is aimed at making sure that people who flout current FARA requirements do not get away with working for a foreign ...

The Foreign Agents Registration Act. Established in 1938, the Foreign Agents Registration Act requires certain individuals and organizations to register as foreign agents, and to publish specific ...

FARA covers anyone acting as “agent of a foreign principal,” including but not limited to (1) attempting to influence federal officials or the public on domestic or foreign policy or the ...

In a recent complaint to the DOJ, a Sikh temple claims the HAF is operating in coordination with the embassy in Washington, ...

If the last few months are any indication, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, statute has become an important tool in the Department of Justice’s toolbox for combatting foreign ...

Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt ...

You pay the lawyer to act on your behalf and the lawyer’s actions can legally bind you. But the FARA definition, however, can be read more broadly. Crucially, an “agent of a foreign principal” can ...

On March 3, the GD Parliament approved the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in its first reading. This is an update to the hugely controversial “foreign agents’ law” rammed through the last year ...

And, like, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, like, that law - it's been here for 80 years, but, you know, it's possible it was never even mentioned on NPR before 2016.