Sean Spicer, the former Trump White House press secretary, said in March, just after Flynn
registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, that Trump had not been aware that Flynn had been paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election.
Not exact matches
But things went south, Torossian said, when Gates and Manafort asked him whether he could avoid
registering with the Justice Department
as a
foreign agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act
foreign agent in accordance
with the
Foreign Agents Registration Act
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
An attorney for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn told President Donald Trump's transition team before the inauguration that Flynn might
register with the government
as a
foreign agent, White House officials acknowledged.
Together
with Manafort, Gates had been indicted on 12 charges related to money laundering, tax fraud, failure to
register as foreign agents, and conspiracy against the United States.
RT was in fact forced to
register in the United States in November, and Russia passed a law that month allowing
foreign agent status to be conferred on media outlets.103 In December the Ministry of Justice designated Voice of America and eight media outlets associated
with RFE / RL
as foreign agents.104
While it may be tempting to point to the fact that Russia is at odds (to put it mildly)
with the US and GB is an ally, I don't think that British
agents (of other branches of the GB government) are excused from
registering as foreign agents.
Lawyers for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told Trump's transition team before the inauguration that Flynn might need to
register with the government
as a
foreign agent, but the president was not aware of the possible move, the White House said Friday.
However, there may be limits for shared research, considering that Russia passed a law in 2012 requiring nonprofit organizations to
register as «
foreign agents»
with the government.