The Justice Department is appointing a prosecutor who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's team to lead a revamped unit that will crack down on unregistered foreign agents, the head of the department's national security division said
The initiative at the Justice Department to pursue violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires that an entity representing a foreign political party or government file public reports detailing the relationship, will be overseen by Brandon Van Grack, who left Mueller's team in recent months to rejoin the national security division.
According to the settlement, a Skadden partner who has since left the firm -- whom CNN has identified as former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig -- gave false information to the firm about the work he had performed for Ukraine, and the firm repeated that information to the Justice Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act unit, which resulted in Skadden avoiding having to register as a foreign agent when it should have been required to do so.
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