Lawfare Archive: Foreign Agents and the Barrack Indictment
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🗓️ 29 September 2024
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From September 21, 2022: This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served as an informal advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign and then as chair of Trump's inaugural committee, is alleged to have acted as a foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates. According to the indictment, Barrack acted as a back channel for the UAE to influence U.S. foreign policy.
Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Alex Iftimie, a partner at the law firm Morrison Foerster, and a former Department of Justice attorney specializing in national security matters, including the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, and related statutes. They discussed the case against Barrack, the significance of the charges to broader enforcement strategy, and why foreign influence matters for U.S. national security.
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| 1:48.6 | for September 29th, 2024. This week an indictment was unsealed by the Justice Department against |
| 1:56.6 | mayor of New York, Eric Adams, accusing him of soliciting contributions by foreign nationals, |
| 2:02.2 | wire fraud, bribery, and more. |
| 2:05.7 | The indictment alleges that Adams received numerous gifts and donations from Turkish |
| 2:09.4 | nationals, quote, seeking to gain influence over him. |
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