Exhibit 826

Letter, DOJ NSD Counterintelligence and Export Control Section to Skadden Arps re Mercury Public Affairs and the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine

Exhibit 826 · Agency letter

Letter, DOJ NSD Counterintelligence and Export Control Section to Skadden Arps re Mercury Public Affairs and the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine

we have determined that Mercury has an obligation to register under FARA, which arises from political activities it undertook within the United States pursuant to its relationship with the ECFMU, a foreign principal under the Act.

Determines that Mercury Public Affairs has an obligation to register under FARA for political activities in the United States under its relationship with the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, and refers to its earlier registration under the Lobbying Disclosure Act from April 2012 to May 2014.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division
Date: 31 March 2017
Quoted from: DOJ National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, letter of 31 March 2017 to Kenneth A. Gross (Skadden), p. 1, first paragraph
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/page/file/1282121/download
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-6.6: Primary record The September 2018 Manafort superseding information charges that from at least 2006 to 2015 Manafort conspired with Richard Gates, Konstantin Kilimnik and others to act as unregistered agents of Ukraine, including by arranging payment of over $2 million from offshore accounts to two unnamed Washington lobbying firms, which the information does not identify. On 31 March 2017 DOJ's FARA unit told the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs in separate letters that each had an obligation to register for political activities for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.