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The Justice Department has closed an investigation into whether or not retired Marine Gen. John Allen lobbied the US authorities on behalf of Qatar in the course of the Trump administration with out bringing any prices towards him, in response to his lawyer.
“We have been informed by the Department of Justice National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California that the investigation of General John R. Allen (Ret.) has been closed and that no criminal charges will be brought against General Allen under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or any other law, based on, or as a result of General Allen’s trip to Qatar in June 2017 or the government’s investigation of those events,” lawyer David Schertler instructed Mahaz News in an announcement Monday evening.
Mahaz News reported in June that Allen, a retired four-star normal who led US and allied troops in Afghanistan, resigned as president of the Brookings Institution after a court docket submitting confirmed the FBI had seized his digital communications. The FBI’s search warrant within the court docket submitting, which appeared to have been posted on-line by mistake, accused Allen of showing to violate overseas lobbying legal guidelines and failing to supply emails associated to the lobbying effort. Allen denied lobbying on behalf of Qatar.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California declined to remark.
Mahaz News has additionally reached out to the Justice Department.
Schertler mentioned within the assertion that his consumer can “now resume his life of service to his country without the cloud of any criminal investigation hanging over him,” calling it “deeply unfortunate” that Allen’s “reputation and livelihood were wrongly damaged by the public release of confidential grand jury information.”
Source web site: www.cnn.com
