On April 2nd, Partner Josh Rosenstein was quoted in The Washington Post regarding the hiring of Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois pardoned by President Trump in 2020, to lobby on behalf of the Bosnian Serb republic. Blagojevich’s new lobbying effort, which seeks to persuade U.S. officials to lift sanctions and challenge international opposition to the region’s separatist ambitions, has raised legal concerns about compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), particularly due to the redaction of his lobbying fees in the publicly available contract.

“Attorney Joshua Rosenstein, who specializes in laws governing foreign lobbying, said he has seen Social Security numbers and bank account information redacted from contracts before — but not lobbying fees.

‘That’s very unusual,’ [Rosenstein] said. ‘The question is who redacted it. … The law requires a public disclosure of a lot of information because the underlying goal is to understand who is working for foreign principals and what the terms of those engagements are.'”

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