Washington, United States:
The Ministry of Justice scales back the police from the foreign interests active in the United States, which ends the criminal enforcement of a law that is used to tie bad actors who want to influence politics and elections on behalf of foreign governments.
In a memo that was sent to the staff on Wednesday, the American attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that she had dissolved the Foreign Influence Task Force, a unit committed to investigating the violations of the registration law of the foreign agents (PARA), where such agents must register with US authorities.
She said that the decision had been taken “free resources to tackle more urgent priorities and to end the final risks of further armament and abuse of prosecutors.”
Mrs Bondi did not go out, but the figures on the conspiracy of the Republican Party have accused the government of abusing Fara to focus unfairly on political agents, such as Paul Manafort, the campaign leader of Donald Trump who was charged in a probe in the Russian influence in that year in that year. American election.
Also on Wednesday, the day of her curses, Mrs. Bondi de Task Force Kleptocapture, an initiative that started in 2022 to enforce sanctions against Russia.
Moscow was generally accused of trying to influence the vote of 2016 in favor of Trump, who then won.
Russia has denied involvement in the scandal, despite findings from American intelligence services.
As far as Manafort is concerned, he was accused of a litany of violations, including acting as a non -registered agent of a foreign director and in PARA documents. He was eventually granted grace by Trump.
Fara was also used to chase Mike Flynn, the first national security adviser of Trump, who lied against the FBI about contacts with Russia, and former democratic senator Bob Menendez, who was imprisoned in January for bribery and did not register as a foreign agent For Egypt.
Mrs Bondi – who previously registered under Fara for work she did with Qatar – said that she limited the criminal enforcement of the law to 'alleged behavior similar to more traditional espionage by foreign government factors'.
In a flurry of edicts that were broadcast on her first day in the work, Mrs. Bondi also launched a unit focused on the Hamas attacks from 2023 on Israel, targeted diversity programs for elimination and restored the enforcement of the federal death penalty, which was stopped under Then -President Joe Biden.
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