Keith Schiller's firm registered to arrange U.S.-Kazakhstan extradition talks. The filing lists no fee

Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump's former bodyguard, is one of three managing directors of a Washington firm that has registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent of Kazakhstan's prosecutor general. Schiller once served as director of Oval Office operations. The firm says the work is unpaid. It says the aim is to arrange official meetings on extradition cooperation, including a possible bilateral treaty.

Javelin Advisors LLC's registration statement was received by the Justice Department's FARA Unit on Oct. 29, 2026. The department assigned registration number 7791. The records were retrieved from the department's public eFile system on Nov. 10, 2026. The foreign principal is the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, at 14 Mangilik El Avenue in Astana.

Exhibit A identifies the office as a foreign government agency. It names Deputy Prosecutor General Galymzhan Koigeldiyev as the official the firm engages. Exhibit B says there is no written contract. The firm checked the box for an oral understanding, dated Oct. 27, 2026. An appendix states:

"Registrant has an oral understanding with the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reached in telephone conversations with Baurzhan Kurmanov, a representative of the Government of Kazakhstan, on or about October 27. Under that understanding, Registrant assists the Government of Kazakhstan in arranging and participating in meetings between Kazakh officials and U.S. Government officials concerning extradition cooperation between the United States and the Republic of Kazakhstan, including a potential bilateral extradition treaty. The understanding has no fixed duration and continues until terminated by either party. Registrant receives no compensation for these services."

Registration under FARA is a disclosure. It is not a finding that Javelin, Schiller or Kazakhstan has broken U.S. law. The packet does not accuse anyone of wrongdoing. The forms also do not list any meeting that has already taken place. They do not name any U.S. official the firm has contacted. They do not list any payment from Kazakhstan.

Who filed, and what they say they will do#

The registration says Javelin was organized in Delaware on Nov. 13, 2024. It is "co-owned and controlled equally" by George A. Sorial, Keith Schiller and Robert W. Seiden. All three are listed as managing directors. Sorial is named as the responsible individual. The firm's primary business address is 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 200, in Washington. Another office is listed in Boca Raton, Florida.

Sorial's citizenship is listed as the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom. Schiller and Seiden are listed as U.S. citizens. Short-form filings for all three were also received on Oct. 29. They describe the services as "Extradition cooperation between the United States and Republic of Kazakhstan." They say the work includes political activity as defined in the Act. They say it will be done on a part-time basis. Each short form lists a fee of $0.00. The company reported that it had received no money or thing of value from the Kazakh principal in the 60 days before registration. It also reported that it had not engaged in registrable activities for that principal before filing.

An appendix to the registration describes Javelin as "a government relations and consulting firm which provides highly customized service to a select group of global clients focused on simplifying the many complexities of Washington, D.C. and the United States government."

The three partners' public biographies, on the firm's website, were reviewed on Nov. 10, 2026. Those pages go further than the FARA forms. The site says Schiller served in the U.S. Navy and spent 21 years at the New York City Police Department. It says he became Donald Trump's personal bodyguard in 2004 and later director of security at the Trump Organization. After the 2016 election, it says, he was appointed deputy assistant to the president and director of Oval Office operations, and served for one year. It says Sorial spent 13 years at the Trump Organization, including as executive vice president and counsel and later as chief compliance counsel. It says he is an attorney admitted in the District of Columbia, New York and New Jersey. It describes Seiden as a former Manhattan prosecutor, the firm's chief counsel, and the founder of Seiden Law LLP, with experience in sanctions, OFAC and FARA matters. Those are the firm's own claims about its principals. The FARA forms themselves do not recite the White House or Trump Organization titles.

The same website lists an email address, info@javelinadvisorsllc.com, and a Washington phone number. 567 Politics did not receive a comment from the firm, the three partners, the Kazakh prosecutor general's office, Koigeldiyev or Kurmanov before publication. The signed registration, the oral-understanding appendix and the informational materials described below are the statements on the record.

The treaty memo the firm filed#

Along with the registration, Javelin filed a five-page pamphlet titled "Justification for a US-Kazakhstan Extradition Treaty." A cover legend states that, in accordance with 22 U.S.C. § 614, the material is distributed by Javelin Advisors LLC on behalf of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It also says additional information is on file with the Justice Department.

The document is an advocacy brief, not an independent government report. Its main claims, attributed here to the filing, are these:

Kazakhstan and the United States already have a Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. The pamphlet says it was signed on Feb. 20, 2015, and has been in force since Dec. 6, 2016. But that treaty "does not regulate the extradition of wanted persons." Under U.S. law, the pamphlet says, extradition "generally takes place pursuant to an international treaty," with limited exceptions. Efforts to conclude a bilateral extradition treaty have been underway since 2016, it says. "In January 2025, Kazakhstan further advanced this initiative by submitting a draft Treaty to the U.S. side."

"According to INTERPOL information, approximately 50 persons wanted internationally in connection with crimes committed in Kazakhstan have been identified in the United States," the document states. It says a treaty would allow requests for their extradition to be considered under an agreed legal framework. It does not name those people. It does not describe the charges. It does not attach the INTERPOL source. 567 Politics did not independently confirm the figure.

The pamphlet also argues that a treaty would give the United States a way to seek suspects located in Kazakhstan in cases of fraud, money laundering and cybercrime. It points to two episodes of cooperation that, it says, show the relationship already works in practice. One is a June 2020 Justice Department acknowledgment of help from Kazakhstan's National Security Committee in an investigation of the hacking group Fxmsp. The other is Kazakhstan's November 2020 extradition of U.S. citizen Trent Drexel Howard, which it says the Justice Department described as the first extradition from Kazakhstan to the United States. Those historical citations appear in the pamphlet. They are not independently re-documented in Javelin's other forms.

The document says Kazakhstan is ready to use a modern U.S. treaty model as a basis for talks. It says Kazakhstan is ready to discuss issues including dual criminality, the extradition of nationals and grounds for refusal. It also says Kazakhstan is ready to send experts to the United States "at any time convenient to the U.S. side." It adds a caveat that matters for how the pitch should be read. A treaty "would not, however, provide for the automatic extradition of wanted persons." Each request, it says, would be considered under the treaty, domestic law and legal safeguards.

The registration says the firm had already prepared or caused the pamphlet to be circulated before filing. It lists the type as "Pamphlets or other publications." The forms do not say who received it. They do not say whether any U.S. official has agreed to a meeting. They do not say whether the State Department or Justice Department has answered the January 2025 draft treaty the pamphlet describes.

1. 2024-11-13Javelin Advisors LLC is organized in Delaware
2. 2026-10-27Oral understanding with Kazakhstan's prosecutor general, the firm says
3. 2026-10-29Justice Department receives registration 7791, short forms and the treaty pamphlet

Source: DOJ FARA registration 7791, Registration Statement, Exhibits A and B, Informational Materials

A disclosed campaign contribution, with a date that does not quite match#

The registration and Schiller's short form both disclose a political contribution in the statutory window before registration. They list $5,000 from Keith Schiller to "Team Ronny" on Aug. 28, 2026, as a "Direct Contribution." The firm's registration reports the same gift under disbursements for political contributions. Sorial's and Seiden's short forms do not list campaign contributions in that period.

Team Ronny is a joint fundraising committee, FEC identification number C00754044. It is affiliated with the campaign of Rep. Ronny Jackson$, a Texas Republican, according to the committee's FEC overview page, reviewed on Nov. 10, 2026. A Team Ronny report filed with the FEC and retrieved the same day lists a $5,000 receipt from Keith Schiller of Boca Raton, Florida. The employer is listed as KS Global Group LLC, and the occupation as consultant. The receipt date is Sept. 1, 2026, and the aggregate year-to-date figure is $8,000 (transaction ID A8DE7B547E78448ABA40). The amount matches the FARA disclosure. The dates do not. The FARA forms say Aug. 28, and the committee's FEC schedule says Sept. 1. The difference may reflect a check date and a receipt date, but the filings do not say. The $8,000 year-to-date total implies at least one other receipt from Schiller in the cycle. This story does not treat that remainder as documented beyond the aggregate line.

A disclosed contribution is not evidence that Jackson asked Javelin to work for Kazakhstan. It is not evidence that Kazakhstan directed the gift. The FARA form required the contribution to be reported because it fell in the look-back window. The forms do not list any contact with Jackson or his staff about the extradition treaty.

What the filing does not show#

The most important gaps are also the simplest. The firm says it will arrange and take part in meetings, but it lists none. It says the work is unpaid, which means there is no invoice trail in this packet to test. An oral understanding with no fixed term can be ended by either side. The filing does not attach correspondence that would let a reader see the exact words used on the Oct. 27 calls. The pamphlet's INTERPOL figure, and its account of a January 2025 draft treaty, are claims by the foreign principal's agent. They are not findings by the State Department or INTERPOL published in this record.

The packet also does not say why Kazakhstan wants a treaty now. It does not say which fugitives it would prioritize. It does not say how U.S. officials have assessed Kazakhstan's criminal-justice system, human-rights record or previous mutual legal assistance. Those questions belong in any treaty debate. They are not answered by a FARA form. A 567 Politics guide to what lobbying and foreign-agent records can and cannot show makes the same point about other public filings: disclosure is not proof of a bargain or a legal violation.

A 567 Politics examination of FARA records for Jason Miller's firm and the Indian government showed how a filing can list a monthly fee and named official calls and still fall short of proving what was said on those calls, or whether any rule was broken. Javelin's Kazakhstan packet is the opposite shape: no fee, no call log, a policy memo and a promise of future meetings. A story on Katie Wiles's lobbying firm and a separate report on Brad Parscale's firm and a large Israel media contract show other ways former Trump-world operatives have appeared in public influence records. Those are comparisons of disclosure. They are not evidence that the Kazakhstan work is similar in size or purpose.

Schiller's White House service ended years before this registration. The filing does not show that he or his partners have residual official authority. It does not show that any current administration official has agreed to discuss a treaty. What it shows is that three private consultants, including a former director of Oval Office operations, have told the Justice Department they will try, without pay, to arrange official conversations about extradition with Kazakhstan's prosecutor general.

Whether that effort produces a negotiation, a meeting that goes nowhere, or nothing at all will have to be read from later supplemental statements. It will also depend on whatever the State Department and Justice Department say in public. Those later records are not in the Oct. 29 packet.

Differing perspectives

Should the United States negotiate a bilateral extradition treaty with Kazakhstan?

Each position is summarized as its supporters make it, with equal weight and in alphabetical order. A summary is not an endorsement; the evidence for each is weighed in the story above.

• Negotiate a treaty with legal safeguards

  Who holds it: Javelin Advisors LLC, in informational materials filed for Kazakhstan's prosecutor general

  The firm's pamphlet argues that the existing mutual legal assistance treaty does not cover extradition, and that U.S. law generally requires a treaty before extradition can proceed. It says Kazakhstan has sought a bilateral treaty since 2016 and submitted a draft in January 2025. A treaty, it says, would let each country request the return of suspects under agreed rules, including dual criminality and grounds for refusal, without automatic extradition. The firm presents this as a way to handle cases on both sides, including cybercrime and fraud.

  In their words: Javelin Advisors LLC, Justification for a US-Kazakhstan Extradition Treaty ↗

• Treat the filing as disclosure, not a decision

  Who holds it: The Justice Department's FARA Unit, in the department's official description of the Act

  The Justice Department says FARA requires certain agents of foreign principals to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship, activities, receipts and disbursements. That disclosure, the department says, lets the government and the public evaluate the activities in light of the person's role as a foreign agent. On that view, a registration and a treaty pamphlet are information for officials and the public. They are not a State Department decision to open talks, and they are not a finding that a treaty should or should not be signed.

  In their words: U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division ↗

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