LGF reader ploome points out a story I missed last week at the Washington Post; the offices of Qorvis Communications (PR shills for the Saudi regime) were raided by the FBI on Tuesday: FBI Searches Saudi Arabia’s PR Firm.

The FBI searched offices of a prominent public relations firm Tuesday, looking for information about its client Saudi Arabia, law enforcement sources said.

The firm, Qorvis Communications LLC, which was founded in 2000, bills itself as providing “communications for Wall Street, Main Street and K Street.” Qorvis has offices in the District and Tysons Corner, and its clients also include Time Warner Inc. and the Urban League.

The FBI searched three of the firm’s offices Tuesday afternoon, sources said. Agents delivered subpoenas at a fourth Qorvis office.

Michael Mason, head of the FBI’s Washington field office, declined yesterday to characterize the nature of the investigation or identify the places that were searched. “We did execute searches at three locations,” he said.

Officials at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington said the case is under seal and would not reveal details.

“The raids are in conjunction with an ongoing investigation and therefore it would be inappropriate for me to comment,” said Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.

Qorvis said the company understood that the government is conducting a “compliance inquiry” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Under that law, the government keeps track of the lobbying activities of foreign governments and their representatives. The rigorous registration and reporting system is overseen by the Justice Department.

Saudi Arabia is the only foreign government on Qorvis’s client list.