The federal prosecution of Paul Manafort for failing to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) in connection with his work for the Government of Ukraine has certainly elevated the profile of this once-backwater enforcement regime. But, importantly, the Manafort prosecution has also reinforced long-held FARA myths. Prominent among those myths is this: Unless lawyers are engaged in political lobbying on behalf of foreign state-actors, we simply need not be concerned with FARA.

Wrong.

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