Miami Mayor Faces Call To Resign Over Saudi Work

The Miami Herald reports:

The Herald investigated Suarez’s role in planning a March 2023 trade summit put on by the Saudi kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund. A review of city emails and the summit’s promotional materials show Suarez and a handful of city staffers helped make the event, at an exhibition hall in Miami Beach, happen.

The mayor’s participation raised questions about whether Suarez should have registered as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice, a requirement for anyone involved in political advocacy or public relations work in the United States on behalf of a foreign government, with a few narrow exceptions.

Five experts on the federal law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, told the Herald the kind of work Suarez and his staff performed to plan and promote the event could be a problem because none of them were registered under FARA.

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