Last week Emenike Charles Nwankwoala, a 49-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges that he exported shotguns, pistols and ammunition to Nigeria without a license. According to the press release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), Nwankwoala had…
From the London Evening Standard we have this proposal for new sanctions on Iran to deter that country’s nuclear ambitions [A]n Israeli journalist has come up with an ingenious idea: a boycott on the export of cosmetics and toiletries to…
A court battle raging between Italian company Tiber Aviation s.r.l. and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. turns on whether Tiber was actually intending to ship a helicopter to Iran or whether Bell told that story to a special agent of the…
A recent article in today’s international edition of Der Spiegel reports on an interesting analogue, in Germany, to the Majid Kakavand case in France. Just as the court in France seems likely to deny the request by the U.S. for…
OFAC's $735,407 fine of Hilton for hotels in Sudan may exceed the agency's authority.