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Much of the time, it's illegal if the person being manipulated/used/complicit knows, so the FBI will often tip them of an intelligence asset targeting them so if they keep it up, or spill the beans when told not to, they can get charged.
Maybe there are other laws too but that one came up with the US president's first term investigating all the russian links to the campaign back before we officially became south america where nobody gives a shit anymore.