Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties imposed by OFAC. Among those listed was a $1,769 fine imposed on Aero Vacations, a small travel agency in Los Angeles serving Spanish-speaking customers.…
We’re back from vacation and we’re back with a grab bag of things: University of Tennessee Professor J. Reece Roth was convicted on eighteen counts, including violations of the Arms Export Control Act for permitting foreign graduate students to have…
According to this report from the website of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the trial of Professor J. Reece Roth for violation of the Arms Export Control Act continued today with the testimony of Daniel Max Sherman, the only officer of…
ABOVE: Professor Reece Roth Opening statements were made yesterday in the criminal prosecution of Professor J. Reece Roth, a retired University of Tennessee professor accused, inter alia, of violating the Arms Export Control Act. Specifically Roth is accused of violating…
Today the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a final rule which expanded the criteria which the agency could use to put foreign persons and companies on its “Entity List.” Most exports of U.S.-origin items to parties on the…