Monica Crowley registers as foreign agent for a Ukrainian billionaire

A document showing the registration, signed March 10, has been posted Justice Department’s website pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act statute.

The FACA form shows Crowley registered to work under political analyst Doug Schoen and that she will be rendering her “outreach services” to Pinchuk on a part-time basis.

According to a report last year, Pinchuk’s foundation donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2015 for a speech Trump delivered to a European security meeting held by an NGO founded by Pinchuk. Pinchuk has also donated millions to the Clinton Foundation.

Asked about the hire, Schoen told the Washington Examiner that he approached Crowley, who has been a professional colleague of his at Fox News, only after she left the position she ‎had been appointed to by the Trump administration.

“I was very pleased that Monica agreed to join my firm and she has been working on a number of matters for me and my firm, only since she chose to resign from the position she was appointed to in the Trump Administration,” he said.

Schoen stressed that no discussions about any potential work she might do for his firm had begun until after she resigned.

Crowley backed out of a National Security Council job in January after CNN and Politico revealed instances where Crowley failed to offer proper attribution in a book she wrote and her 2000 dissertation for her international relations Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Crowley said last week that the CNN report was a “political hit job” and has been “debunked.”

The journalist behind the report, Andrew Kaczynski, stood by his reporting, calling her statement “complete BS.”

Crowley was also accused of plagiarizing a Commentary magazine article back in the late 1990s. She denied the claim, saying, “‘I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it.”

Alex Pappas contributed to this report.