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Technically you’re supposed to register as a foreign agent under FARA. This law has gotten a lot of ex trump guys in trouble, including just last week his inaug
by ashtonkem 5y ago
Technically you’re supposed to register as a foreign agent under FARA. This law has gotten a lot of ex trump guys in trouble, including just last week his inauguration committee chairman.
So as the laws currently stand you can work for a foreign government lobbying the US government, you just need to be transparent about what you’re doing.
- tablespoon 5y ago> So as the laws currently stand you can work for a foreign government lobbying the US government, you just need to be transparent about what you’re doing. While that's better than nothing, it doesn't go far enough. And frankly, there's also an issue of reciprocity: why should the Chinese be able to hire connected government insiders, when I'm pretty sure the CCP would absolutely disallow such work by their own political insiders (and probably do bad things to anyone who was stupid enough to take a job like that).
- sremani 5y agoTom Barrack is not arrested under FARA.
- ashtonkem 5y agoHe was arrested under a related statue, 18 U.S.C. § 951, for which FARA provides an explicit exception for if you’re registered. An interesting legal technicality, but not something that changes the lay person’s understanding of the situation. He was charged with being an illegal foreign agent, and if he’d registered under FARA’s rules he wouldn’t be in trouble.