Senior Counsel David Aaron was quoted in "‘Espionage Lite’ or Deal Making? Prosecutors Struggle To Draw a Line," an article in The New York Times,* regarding the acquittal of Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a former Trump adviser, and the difficulty of proving wrongdoing amid a brew of political, personal, and commercial interests.

A fundamental question, in addition to the amount of deception or concealment, is agency,” said David, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “You have to agree to act at the direction and control” of a foreign power, “and then you have to do something that they tell you to.

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