On October 13th, Partner Josh Rosenstein was quoted in Politico Influence about Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita consulting for foreign political campaigns. Political consultants working on foreign elections have generally not been required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), pursuant to a 2010 advisory opinion issued by the Justice Department and the long-understood scope of the law.

“‘This has come up for generations, where you have both Democratic and Republican political consultants who are good at what they do here and then a foreign party or foreign candidates wants to hire them to essentially replicate the work abroad,’ said Joshua Rosenstein, a partner at Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock who advises clients on compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ‘To my knowledge [the Justice Department] has never cared.’”

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