On its website today, OFAC designated the Estancia Infantil Niño Feliz (aka “Happy Baby Day Care Center”) in Culiacan, Mexico, as a narcotics playpen kingpin. Undercover agents reported hearing a discussion between two four-year-olds planning to ship 200 kilos of…
A press release from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) this afternoon announced that Cooper Tools Industrial Ltda., a wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary of Houston-based Cooper Industries, agreed to pay $27,000 to settle anti-boycott violations that had been voluntarily disclosed…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) announced today that it was amending section 126.1 of the ITAR to reflect a partial lifting of the arms embargo against Somalia. These amendments are being adopted to implement revisions made to the…
Michael Moore probably didn’t get a Christmas card from the Bushes this year — or any year for that matter. But he did recently get a nice letter from OFAC telling him we was under investigation. It seems that Moore…
Reader Mike Deal forwarded to me some of the documents filed in the prosecution of Mohammad Alavi, who has been charged with exporting copies of simulation software to Iran in violation of the Iranian Transaction Regulations. The affidavit filed in…