Robot Attack!
This morning I received a curt email from my web-hosting provider that Export Law Blog was being crawled by a number of robots making so many file requests that they had to shut down my site temporarily and then add…
Clif Burns
Software Engineer Caught in Export Sting Pleads Guilty
Notwithstanding an apparent slip-up by undercover agents in a sting which caught a Seattle-area software engineer in a plan to export ITAR-controlled radiation-hardened semiconductor chips to China, the target of the sting, Lian Yang, pleaded guilty today to charges that…
Oh, The Things You Can Buy on the Internet
U.S. prosecutors announced today that four members of a Colombian family were indicted by a grand jury on charges that the family attempted to export J85 jet engines from Miami to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo on Iran.…
Ninth Circuit Upholds Export Statute against Vagueness Challenge
Last week the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of Zhi Yong Guo for unlicensed exports of thermal imaging cameras in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. According to the facts recited by the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Zhi was…
First Let’s Make Sure We’ve Got the Name Right
It’s been a while since this blog has seen one of the infamous press releases from a company announcing that the company has registered with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). A reader today brought to my attention a…