The indictment of Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on Monday is, among many other things, the most significant prosecution of a Foreign Agents Registration Act violation ever.Manafort and Gates have been charged with a litany of federal crimes including conspiracy against the United States and tax fraud. They’re also accused of having acted as agents of a foreign power—in this case, the Ukrainian government under the pro-Russia former president Viktor Yanukovych—without registering their activities with the Department of Justice, as is required by law under FARA. The DOJ’s FARA unit is small, and the law is easy …read more
Source: The Atlantic
