Defense News published yesterday an interview with Frank Ruggiero, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Defense Trade and Regional Security in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Mr. Ruggiero oversees all defense exports from the United States, including Direct Commercial Sales and…
ABOVE: Iran’s 9th Olefin PetrochemicalComplex Earlier this month, French corporation Cryostar SA entered a guilty plea to various export violations arising from its role in a scheme to export cryogenic pumps for installation in the 9th Olefin Petroleum Complex in…
ABOVE: Vibro-Meter PressureIndicators A story by Dan Browning in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune alerted me to an investigation of Global Engineering Associates (“GEA”), a company located in a Minneapolis suburb. According to a recently unsealed search warrant (which Dan Browning was…
Daniel Max Sherman, a former employee of Knoxville-based Atmospheric Glow Technologies, entered a guilty plea today in federal court to a conspiracy with a former University of Tennessee professor to provide controlled technical data to a Chinese student research assistant…
The Chi Mak case has engendered its fair share of confusion, and the latest victim is a trade law attorney who submitted a brief article to an export law newsletter that was published today. According to that article, the verdict…