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The rarely-enforced Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires people to report work for foreign governments that tries to influence U.S. policy.

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While grappling with gun charges and a tax investigation, Hunter Biden faces potentially a third set of charges over his decision not to register as a "foreign agent" while working with companies in Ukraine and China.

The inquiry comes as the Justice Department recalibrates its enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for people to report their work for foreign governments trying to influence U.S. policy. An inspector general’s report in 2016 found prosecutions and other enforcement actions were “rare" and consisted mostly of civil requests to register retroactively.

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