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Justice Department taps Mueller prosecutor to enforce foreign lobbying disclosure
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - 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.
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.
Demers portrayed the move as a “big shift” in strategy for the Justice Department, which has only prosecuted a handful of FARA cases since the law was enacted in 1938 to address concerns over Nazi propaganda.
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Nadler on the state of play on the Mueller hearing as he left CapHill for the day: “I’m not commenting on anything.”