[Guardian] The US Department of Justice on Tuesday sued Steve Wynn, the billionaire former casino mogul and senior Republican fund raiser, to compel him to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent of China.The department said Wynn, 80, had contacted then-US president Donald Trump and members of his Republican administration in 2017 to convey China’s request to cancel the visa of or otherwise remove a Chinese businessperson who had sought political asylum in the United States.
In a statement the Department of Justice said it was seeking to compel Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara) as the agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a senior official of the PRC’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
"The filing of this suit — the first affirmative civil lawsuit under Fara in more than three decades — demonstrates the department’s commitment to ensuring transparency in our democratic system," said assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen of the justice department’s national security division. "Where a foreign government uses an American as its agent to influence policy decisions in the United States, Fara gives the American people a right to know."