Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Sparky Stays Home

Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) proposed changes in the Commerce Control List to impose new export controls on devices designed for human execution, certain restraint devices, law enforcement striking devices, and certain torture devices that weren’t…

Export a Butterfly, Stung By Bee – I.S.

Houston-based FMC Technologies recently agreed to pay $610,000 to settle charges that it had exported butterfly valves on 78 occasions without required export licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). This ouch-sized fine, which followed a voluntary disclosure…

Export Law Makes Cameo Appearance in Simels Trial

ABOVE: CSM 7806 Mobile TelephoneInterception Device Manhattan defense attorney Robert Simels is on trial in connection with alleged criminal actions taken by him in the course his defense of Guyanese drug lord Roger Khan. These charges included alleged witness tampering…