On November 11th, Partner Josh Rosenstein was quoted in POLITICO regarding the federal prosecution of Linda Sun, a former aide to New York Governors Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo, who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government. The case marks the first major Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) trial of the second Trump administration.

“Though it began in the Biden administration, Sun’s case ‘maps pretty well onto where Bondi said they would continue to focus criminal enforcement,’ said Josh Rosenstein, a partner at Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, who advises clients on FARA compliance.”

“’What’s present in this case that has not been present in a lot of the [foreign agent] cases that the department lost is … the very sexy fact pattern involving flashy items of value and expensive toys and all of the hallmarks that you would traditionally expect to see in a foreign influence operation,’ said Rosenstein.”

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