Comments on: This Mobile Home Don’t Feel Like Home No More

By: Mike Deal

Mike Deal — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:50:48 +0000

Someone should tell them them that having a master in political science from a DC diploma mill does not make one a master of the universe.

By: FormerOFAC

FormerOFAC — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:53:37 +0000

Remember, any time a bank blocks or rejects funds transfers because of an SDN, it has to file a report to OFAC. I would imagine that many of these reports constitute ready-made penalty cases. Just add water….

But seriously, I have to agree…in the grand scheme, cases like this make OFAC look ridiculous.

By: Export Boy

Export Boy — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:25:03 +0000

A possibility I had not considered…

By: Clif Burns

Clif Burns — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:24:15 +0000

Or maybe the folks at the hotline can’t answer the phone anymore because they’ve been flooded by calls from people wondering whether they can pay their restaurant or bar tabs without being penalized by OFAC.

By: Export Boy

Export Boy — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:18:51 +0000

Over at my blog, I detailed my latest experience with the OFAC hotline. If this poor sucker’s experience was anything like mine, mabye he TRIED to reconcile the SDN match and just gave up.

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:27:47 +0000

I find it strange that they are so “commando” on this one. I am all for export compliance and Treasury determined lists – but this goes too far.

By: Scott K.

Scott K. — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:23:56 +0000

Can you imagine the hushed cell phone calls from restaurants?
“I think my waiter is on the SDN list, what do I do?”
“Sir, do not pay the waiter! Pay at the reservation desk! And this is critical, so listen up…do not leave a tip on the table. The bus boy is using an alias for an SDGT.”

Do you think they’d outsource the OFAC call center to Mumbai?

By: Clif Burns

Clif Burns — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:06:06 +0000

Actually, I think this case indicates that there might soon be a market for pocket SDN lists that you would carry around and consult every time you pulled out your wallet.

By: Scott K.

Scott K. — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:26:06 +0000

:wry humor font:
Once EO 13224 went out, everyone became a junior G-man. No badge, no decoder ring. Just the responsibility. Although it can lead to silly and counter-intuitive results, you know, that ship has sailed. we were inducted into service, and we’re in it for the duration.
:end wry humor font:

More seriously, I’d love to know ‘the rest of the story’, to coin a phrase. Trailers are registered with a State DMV, they may have caught the SDNTK. The lot in the trailer park was either sold, leased or rented to the SDNTK. And so on with utilities, insurance, maintenance, taxes, etc. So, was the renter just the last guy in a bad game of musical chairs?