Justice Department closes foreign lobbying investigation into retired Marine general without filing charges, attorney says

The Justice Department has actually closed an examination into whether retired Marine Gen. John Allen lobbied the United States federal government on behalf of Qatar throughout the Trump administration without bringing any charges versus him, according to his lawyer.

” We have actually been notified by the Department of Justice National Security Department and the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Central District of California that the examination of General John R. Allen (Ret.) has actually been closed which no criminal charges will be brought versus General Allen under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or any other law, based upon, or as an outcome of General Allen’s journey to Qatar in June 2017 or the federal government’s examination of those occasions,” lawyer David Schertler informed CNN in a declaration Monday night.

CNN reported in June that Allen, a retired four-star general who led United States and allied soldiers in Afghanistan, resigned as president of the Brookings Organization after a court filing revealed the FBI had actually taken his electronic interactions. The FBI’s search warrant in the court filing, which appeared to have actually been published online by error, implicated Allen of appearing to breach foreign lobbying laws and stopping working to supply e-mails associated with the lobbying effort. Allen rejected lobbying on behalf of Qatar.

The United States Lawyer’s Workplace for the Central District of California decreased to comment.

CNN has actually likewise connected to the Justice Department.

Schertler stated in the declaration that his customer can “now resume his life of service to his nation without the cloud of any criminal examination hanging over him,” calling it “deeply regrettable” that Allen’s “credibility and income were incorrectly harmed by the public release of private grand jury details.”.