Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo Wednesday to scale back the Justice Department's enforcement of foreign lobbying transparency laws while completely disbanding a specialized team dealing with foreign election interference threats.
Instead of dealing with those crimes, Bondi said in the memo, the Criminal Division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit will prioritize foreign bribery cases that facilitate the criminal operations of cartels and transnational organizations such as "human smuggling and the trafficking of narcotics and firearms."
