Complicit Dossier

Financial enablers and gatekeepers · lobbying firm · United States

The Vogel Group, LLC

  • Commercial or professional counterparty
  • Grade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
  • 1 documented tie

Also recorded as: Vogel Group

Registered for the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan: federal executive and legislative lobbying and public-affairs consulting on 'humanitarian and foreign relations policy concerns'.

Response

No response is recorded. Named parties have not yet been asked for comment.

Records

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Grade A: Official record

The Vogel Group, LLC

contract term 2025-06-05 to 2025-12-31; registered 2025-08-01; terminated 2025-10-31

Registered for the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan: federal executive and legislative lobbying and public-affairs consulting on 'humanitarian and foreign relations policy concerns'.

Response
No response located in the sources reviewed.
Sanctions
None found in OFAC SDN / EU / UK lists checked 2026-10-03
  1. 1FARA Exhibit A/B, The Vogel Group - Embassy of the Republic of Sudan · efile.fara.gov · 1 Aug 2025
  2. 2FARA Supplemental Statement, The Vogel Group · efile.fara.gov · 3 Feb 2026
  3. 3Sudan Tribune, 'Sudan hires U.S. lobby firm for $40,000 a month' · sudantribune.com · 19 Aug 2025
  4. 4US DOJ FARA bulk data - All Foreign Principals (downloaded 2026-10-03) · efile.fara.gov · 3 Oct 2026

Relationships

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Money · 1

Geography

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Based in
United States

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

No documented chain links this actor to the SAF.

›Possible links to investigate · 2

  • Ballard Partners hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Embassy of the Republic of Sudan, Washington).

  • The Williams Group hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Embassy of the Republic of Sudan, Washington).