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Ukraine Role Focuses New Attention on Giuliani’s Foreign Work [1]

['Kenneth P. Vogel']

Date: 2019-06-30  

Mr. Giuliani said the contract did not call for him to seek American investment, and he did not do so. The Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, requires Americans to detail payments they receive from foreign governments, politicians or parties for lobbying or public relations work in the United States, but not for legal representation or work done solely overseas.

Mr. Giuliani’s overseas work in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America has drawn criticism from Democrats, who contend it is difficult to separate that work from his close relationship with the president.

That criticism escalated when The Times revealed in May that he was planning to travel to Kiev to urge Volodymyr Zelensky, then the nation’s president-elect, to pursue inquiries into matters that could help Mr. Trump.

Senator Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, in a letter asking the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to investigate, accused Mr. Giuliani of “operating a shadow foreign policy apparatus aimed at influencing upcoming U.S. elections.”

Mr. Giuliani quickly canceled the trip, though he argued that the efforts to influence Ukrainian investigations were related only to his representation of the president and not to his foreign consulting or Mr. Fuks.

Mr. Fuks earned an estimated $270 million in the post-Soviet real estate boom in Moscow, and negotiated with Mr. Trump around 2006 or 2007 over a possible licensing agreement for a Trump Tower in Moscow. After months of negotiations, the deal fell through when Mr. Fuks refused to agree to Mr. Trump’s asking price.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/us/politics/ukraine-giuliani-foreign-work.html

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