A retired Air Force colonel, John O’Toole, and an Israeli aeronautics engineer, Chanoch Miller, are the subjects of a recently unsealed indictment in connection with an alleged plan to ship 700 AK-47s to Somalia. What is most interesting about the…
Regular readers are no doubt familiar with this blog’s occasional posts poking fun of press releases from defense manufacturers noting that the company had “achieved” registration with the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). A common feature of…
ABOVE: Richard Bistrong Well, it now seems that some export issues may be arising in the much-publicized “Shot Show” Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prosecution. In that case, law enforcement officials perp-marched owners and officials of gun and law enforcement…
House and Senate conferees announced yesterday that they had reached agreement on the Iran sanctions legislation passed earlier this year by the House and Senate. The conferees also released the text of the newly agreed bill, now titled the Comprehensive…
Commercial computer security firm Sophos reports the recent appearance of spam emails that attempt to get the recipient to click on an Excel file attachment described as a “report of the declined deposit by OFAC.” If the attachment is opened,…