might have run afoul of FARA by dealing with foreign entities to lobby his father, a U.S. policymaker.
Mr. Weiss is trying to move the case “to a more Democrat-friendly venue,” said the spokesperson, adding that an independent investigation will quickly conclude that Mr.Mr. Weiss is slated to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the coming weeks about the now-scuttled plea deal. “After five years and what we know happened in the grand jury, of course, that had to be part of what the prosecutor has already looked at, as well as every other false allegation made by the right-wing media and others, whether it’s corruption or FARA or money laundering,” Mr. Lowell said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “That was part of what this prosecutor’s office had to have been looking over for five years.
Mr. Trump nominated Mr. Weiss as U.S. attorney in 2017. The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed him in 2018.