Brandon Van Grack, a prosecutor in the Justice Department's national security division who was on Mueller's team until August, will lead the effort to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the official said. 'We have increased our focus into FARA prosecutions,' John Demers
NEW ORLEANS - A former prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has been tapped to step up the U.S. government's enforcement of a rarely prosecuted law on foreign lobbying, a senior Justice Department official said on Wednesday.
Demers said Van Grack would lead a team of attorneys and administrative staff whose mission was to make sure the FARA law, which requires disclosure of lobbying on behalf of foreign interests, is more aggressively enforced. Demers said the decision to ramp up enforcement was influenced by the events surrounding the presidential election in 2016 and afterward, including the case of Manafort who earned tens of millions of dollars covertly lobbying for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.
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