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FARA is administered and enforced by the FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) within the DOJ's National Security Division (NSD). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Since 2016, there has been a 30 percent increase in registrations; [ 7 ] as of November 2022, there were over 500 active foreign agents registered with the FARA Unit.
The text of FARA does not explicitly state whether funding is sufficient to establish agency. There were changing positions regarding this issue, which is also mirrored in the case law. In the first report on FARA to the congress, Attorney General stated that an agent includes a person funded by a foreign principal.
The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from "fined $5,000" to "fined under this title"; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act. [2] Violation of the Logan Act is a felony , punishable with imprisonment for up to three years.
It takes time to gather evidence of FARA violations that can strengthen a case like that against Sun, experts say. The fact that Sun allegedly obtained most of the kickbacks in unreported form ...
Last year the Justice Department also brought FARA violations against two employees of RT, formerly Russia Today, after they partnered with a U.S. media company to pay influencers to promote ...
Hunter was never charged with FARA violations — despite charges announced last year against a businessman who worked with one of the same Chinese firms. The pardon prevents Hunter from facing ...
Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, worked as a consultant to the government of Qatar, newly released disclosures show, raising questions from ethics experts about his failure to ...
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008; Long title: An Act to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.