Washington — The Senate’s top Democrat is calling on the Justice Department to investigate whether Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, failed to inform the department about work he did for foreign entities before joining the Trump administration, possibly in violation of federal law.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter Tuesday to John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, asking his office to “immediately investigate” reports of Grenell’s work in support of the Hungarian government and a Moldovan politician.
Failure to disclose that work as a foreign agent to the Justice Department could be a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires those who lobby in the U.S. on behalf of foreign entities to disclose their efforts. A search of FARA filings shows Grenell did not register.
“If the reports regarding the nature of Mr. Grenell’s undisclosed work with foreign entities are accurate, he may be subject to potential civil and criminal liability as well as vulnerable to blackmail in his new position in the Intelligence Community,” Schumer wrote in his letter.
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It's great that @SenSchumer is demanding an investigation into A/DNI's Grenell's concealed relationship with a very shady Moldovan oligarch.
Did he file FARA paperwork?
But this is overdue. The facts have been known to the public for nearly 2 years.https://t.co/Q2fjlUTay2
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 26, 2020
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