In a DOJ exclusive release to the Oversight Project, we learned that law firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, recently registered as a foreign agent for its legal representation of Burisma and its owner, dating back to March and September of 2016. The retroactive filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act follows a Justice Department initiative to clamp down on belated disclosures of foreign influence. The work involved partner John Buretta’s meetings with high‑level U.S. officials amid mounting corruption investigations into the Ukrainian energy firm—whose board included Hunter Biden at the time and whose dealings later drew scrutiny in both impeachment proceedings and a federal tax and gun probe.
Unlike Buretta, Hunter was not required to register under FARA, despite being a board member of a Ukrainian based company, run by a Ukrainian oligarch. Oversight Project’s Mike Howell commented on the preferential treatment Hunter received “because he was the President’s son, and it would be a massive embarrassment if the First Family had to register as foreign agents.”
Read the Daily Mail article here: https://tinyurl.com/mtr53nrz