US probes monitoring MP’s huge deals with PR firms
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, August 24, 2014
TNA leader R. Sampanthan meeting Premier Narendra Modi in New Delhi yesterday. tamilwin.com
Revelations in the Sunday Times in the past two weeks have prompted a review of mandatory information forwarded to the US Department of Justice by public relations (PR) and lobbying firms assigned by Sri Lanka using vast sums of public money. The FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) Unit of the US Justice Department said it would conduct a re-scrutiny. Timothy Pugh of the Unit functioning under the Attorney General’s Department said we “will review the information” forwarded by the registrants.
