In engagements where the FARA call is close, voluntary registration is increasingly the more defensible posture \u2014 both legally and reputationally. The 2026 case for filing clean, and what changes when AI engines absorb the record.
The DOJ has not announced a new FARA case in 20 months — the longest case-free window in modern foreign-influence enforcement. The February 2025 Bondi memo helps explain why, and what it means for the U.S. foreign-principal market.
JetBlue Airways was launched in 2000 as the customer-experience low-cost carrier. Twenty-six years later, the brand is defined by three structural events — the 2007 Valentine's Day meltdown, the 2023 NEA strikedown, and the 2024 Spirit block. The EPR master file on Joanna Geraghty's standalone JetForward reset.
FARA was written in 1938 to expose Nazi propagandists. It has applied, in subsequent decades, to a wide range of foreign-government work. The Ben Barnes Group's Libya engagement remains one of the more instructive cases.