Last week a federal district court in Ohio ruled that OFAC violated the Fourth Amendment rights of KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. when it blocked the charity’s assets after a provisional finding that the charity was providing material support…
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…
Publicly-traded RF Micro Devices, Inc. recently agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a $190,000 fine to settle charges that it had exported spread spectrum modems covered by ECCN 5A001.b.3 to China without obtaining the required…
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…
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…