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FARA filings spotlight Giuliani's foreign entanglements amid probe • OpenSecrets


Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Federal investigators executed search warrants last week as part of an investigation into Rudy Giuliani and whether he may have acted as an unregistered foreign agent while serving as the personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump.
The search warrants suggest that the criminal investigation is honing in on his dealings in Ukraine, including whether he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Giuliani has previously come under scrutiny for “shadow lobbying” for a number of foreign clients but never registering as a foreign agent.
Federal investigators are reportedly looking into whether Giuliani’s efforts pushing Trump to remove Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, were done at the behest of Ukrainian officials in exchange for damaging information about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business in Ukraine. That effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens ultimately led ....

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Foreign billionaire conspired to violate election law in straw donor scheme


Gilbert Chagoury (Alexandra Wyman/WireImage)
A Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.8 million to resolve allegations that he conspired to violate federal election laws in a “straw donor” scheme to route illegal foreign contributions to U.S. presidential and congressional candidates, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Gilbert Chagoury, a foreign national prohibited by federal law from making contributions to political groups or campaigns to influence U.S. elections, routed approximately $180,000 to the campaign committees of four U.S. candidates through straw donors over the course of three election cycles. He admitted the funds were intended to support candidates and was aware the contributions were made by giving his money under the name of another individual as illegal conduit contributions, according to court records. ....

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Trump allies among top CPAC sponsors


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Donald Trump is no longer a sitting president but his allies are still playing an outsize role in this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference, widely known as CPAC. 
The convening organized by the American Conservative Union culminates Sunday in a speech by the former president himself, Trump’s first public appearance since leaving White House. 
Donald Trump Jr. and campaign fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle are slated to speak Thursday, while various other campaign aides and administration officials are peppered throughout the convention lineup. 
A Friday panel on “unreasonable search and seizures” features former Trump campaign official and National Diversity Coalition for Trump CEO Darrell Scott. The pastor is reportedly under FBI investigation for his role in allegedly usng a now-defunct pro-Trump “dark money” group called the Urban Revitilization Coalition to solicit money from foreign nationals. In 202 ....

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