America First Legal (AFL) filed suit against Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday for failing to require Hunter Biden to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) while Barack Obama was in the White House from 2009 to 2017.
This past spring, AFL secured emails through a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that verified Hunter Biden’s direct representation of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in its interactions with the Obama administration.
Hunter acted as a board member of the company — which fits the definition of a “foreign principal” under 22 U.S.C. § 611(b) — and served as an attorney at the law firm hired to represent it. Therefore, AFL argues, Hunter acted as an agent of a foreign company and is subject to FARA registration as he represented Burisma’s interests.
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An “agent of a foreign principal,” per FARA, includes “any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal.”
AFL argues that Garland did not require Hunter to properly register or follow the necessary legal procedures to obtain a FARA waiver.
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Further, the National Archives just recently released email correspondence verifying that Hunter
