Torres Talks Trade Episode 10 on The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA): A Discussion on Reach, Impact, & Proposed Modifications
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On December 19, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) intended to “update and clarify” the regulations under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The proposed changes to...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on January 2, 2025, amending decades-old regulations issued under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) and...more
On December 20, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise regulations under FARA, three years after an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking sought input on...more
With recent high-profile prosecutions continuing to draw attention to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and related political laws, and a number of notable announcements by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at a...more
On July 11, 2023, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced the Retroactive Foreign Agents Registration Act (RFARA) in a continuing effort to bolster the transparency and accountability of foreign...more
Please join us in a discussion on current developments regarding FARA, where we will cover: - An overview of FARA, including reporting requirements and exemptions; - Recent DOJ enforcement efforts and legislative...more
When considering who must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA” or “the Act”), one normally thinks of individuals, law firms, or marketing firms, the typical kinds of agents that must register for...more
On October 12, 2022, a federal district judge in the District of Columbia, Judge James E. Boasberg, dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil complaint against businessman Steve Wynn, which sought to compel Wynn to...more
In recent weeks, several proposals to increase the reporting requirements for foreign agents have been introduced that would address perceived exemption “loopholes” in the Foreign Registration Act (FARA) and promote greater...more
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) determined approach to identifying violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) shows no signs of slowing down. An inadvertently disclosed warrant revealed that John Allen, a...more
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq., is a federal statute passed in 1938 that was originally intended to combat the dissemination of Nazi and Communist propaganda within the United States. FARA...more
Following its efforts in recent years to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq. (FARA)) more rigorously and transparently, for the first time in nearly 15 years, the U.S. Department of...more
FARA is a disclosure statute that seeks to ensure that all persons acting politically or quasi-politically on behalf of foreign entities in the United States properly disclose their activities to the U.S. government. In...more
President Joseph Biden on January 20, 2021, made news with his Inauguration Day flurry of executive orders. Potentially lost in the shuffle, however, was the Executive Order on Ethics Commitments, which required “every...more
In the wake of a global law firm entering into a multimillion-dollar settlement for failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA or the act), other law firms have...more
With the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) giving increased attention to Foreign Agent Registration Act (“FARA”) enforcement, companies that have international business operations or otherwise deal with foreign governments and...more
U.S. is increasing its enforcement to monitor foreign interests. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced increased enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires public...more
On March 6, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has designated a new deputy chief to lead the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) unit and that...more
After decades in which the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) received relatively little attention, a confluence of recent events has given the statute newfound prominence. Together, these developments compound the...more
The attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a business location is unabated. There are many advantages to doing business in the UK. Investors can draw on a skilled workforce and access a large market; costs of labour and...more
The Federal Communications Commission has slowly opened the door to indirect parent entity foreign ownership of broadcast station licenses. This gradual relaxation of longstanding U.S. federal policy has continued to the...more
On September 4, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission issued a new rule requiring foreign media outlets to submit reports to the FCC disclosing their relationships with foreign principals. The notice was issued pursuant...more
As the world now knows, an indictment against Paul Manafort, Jr., a former campaign chairperson for now-President Donald Trump, and Manafort’s associate, Richard Gates III, was unsealed yesterday. ...more