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Law Drawing Focus in Russia Probe Rarely Ends in Prosecution


WASHINGTON – Criminal prosecutions are rare for people who fail to register as foreign agents, according to a top Justice Department official who testified Wednesday about an obscure law receiving new attention amid investigations into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Adam Hickey, a deputy assistant attorney general, told Senate lawmakers that the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — a law aimed at ensuring transparency about lobbying efforts done in the U.S. at the direction of foreign governments or principals — contains multiple exemptions for registration and requires proof that someone intended to break the law by failing to disclose …read more

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