Exhibit 821

Foreign Agents Registration Act Fact Sheet

Exhibit 821 · Agency fact sheet

Foreign Agents Registration Act Fact Sheet

In 2018 alone, more than twenty individuals and entities were criminally charged with violations involving FARA. That is more than the number of individuals and entities charged in all of the prior 50 years.

DOJ's own account of FARA enforcement after 2016. It reports more than twenty criminal charges in 2018, a May 2019 civil action (RM Broadcasting) that was the first since 1991, new-registrant counts of 45 (2010), 69 (2016) and 93 to date in 2019, and lists the Skadden settlement (17 January 2019) and the Rafiekian conviction (23 July 2019, overturned 24 September 2019).

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division
Date: 25 September 2019
Quoted from: By the Numbers, Criminal Cases
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1205161/dl
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding POL-6.5: Primary record DOJ's 2019 fact sheet states that more than twenty individuals and entities were criminally charged in 2018 with violations involving FARA, more than in the prior 50 years, and that its May 2019 civil action was the first since 1991. The fact sheet lists the 17 January 2019 settlement in which Skadden agreed to register after admitting that it acted as an agent of the Government of Ukraine in a 2012 media campaign.