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On April 11, 2019, a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig, a Washington-based lawyer, with making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine during the Presidency of Viktor Yanukovych from the Department of Justice, National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit (FARA Unit). Craig, 74, of Washington, D.C., was indicted for willfully falsifying and concealing material facts from the FARA Unit, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001(a)(1), and for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit, in violation Title 22, United States Code, Section 618(a)(2). The maximum penalties for the charged offenses are, respectively, five years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and five years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. The indictment details various emails allegedly sent by Craig prior to his firm’s engagement, in which Craig indicated he was aware of the FARA registration requirements and that Ukraine requested public relations help, but did not want to register as an agent for the Government of Ukraine, in part because he believed doing so could prevent him or others at the law firm from taking positions in the federal government in the future.