Joe Zabel

December 12, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The Foreign Agents Registration Act, a formerly obscure federal law designed to help the government monitor foreign influence in the United States, is obscure no longer. But even as criminal FARA enforcement has increased, there is little meaningful civil enforcement of the law. The absence of a real civil enforcement option when FARA violations are less severe unduly distorts decision-making in favor of criminal enforcement.

By Preet Bharara and Joe Zabel

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