Bevel, Your the first so you get one of Raisu's famous points.
They are worth $1,000,000 USD if you find someone willing to do such a trade.
Generally its a trader/smuggler of some sorts using the route FLCompanion told them was the shortest.
Wrong, the Order use it to attack the Liberty Navy / LSF, forces they see as a threat to their own people, and for some other reason, but not specifically to attack New York as they are against harming civillians.
Usually, people are given a bit of slack if its their first offense, Having all records of the area deleted from their ship (which leaves them with no proof to any later claims to its existance).
Now, even IF people did know about Alaska, theres the matter of the Secured Jump Gate.... Keeping to Character, only LN / LSF would be able to access the gate to activate it. That is of course saying that not even Ageira would have control of it whatsoever. Order have the technology to bypass the gate's security in whatever way you deem appropriate. Nomads simply power the gate by a third-party source (generally, "themselves") if i remember correctly.