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WHO KNEW – Skadden, as part of a civil settlement with the DOJ in connection with its past lobbying for the Russia-aligned Ukrainian government, has submitted a Foreign Agents Registration Act filing, which reveals the law firm understood the bill for its services would be largely picked up by the steel magnate Victor Pinchuk. A Ukrainian billionaire, Pinchuk has since come under scrutiny from the special counsel’s office. As C. Ryan Barber reports, the DOJ alleged Skadden should have registered as a foreign agent seven years ago for conducting a purportedly independent analysis of the Russia-aligned Ukrainian government’s prosecution of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and political rival of the country’s president at the time, Viktor Yanukovych. As part of the settlement, Skadden has agreed to pay more than $4.6 million, representing the amount the firm received for its work for Ukraine.
