Key Points
Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz and former FBI Director Louis Freeh have registered to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of an Israeli businessman who has been accused of getting rich from corrupt deals in Africa.
Dan Gertler, who has a net worth of just over $1 billion, was sanctioned in 2017 and 2018 by the Trump administration for his business dealings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
There were no other publicly available records that list Dershowitz as a registered lobbyist, according to a CNBC review. Dershowitz, however, insists he’s acting as a defense attorney for Gertler, not a lobbyist.