Economic Sanctions and War
As the year (and the current administration) draws to an end, there has not been much news on the export front. So, I’m using today, which is Pearl Harbor Day, to raise the question as to whether U.S. sanctions on…
Clif Burns
Prosecutors’ Flood of Crocodile Tears Drown the Wind
ABOVE: Reza Zarrab This blog recently reported on the Iran sanctions case against Reza Zarrab in which Judge Berman misread and misquoted the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to hold that the United States has criminal jurisdiction over anyone on the…
Maybe There’s a Good Idea Lurking in Tom Fox’s Stealth Advertorial
Over at the excellent FCPA Compliance & Ethics Blog, Tom Fox has a plug for email monitoring software disguised as a blog post. He’s even doing a “webinar” with the software developers — completely free, of course — presumably to…
Why It’s Called The Hill Rag
The Washington political gossip sheet officially called The Hill, but more commonly known as “The Hill Rag,” wanders into the world of OFAC regulations and, no big surprise, gets it wrong. The occasion for the Hill Rag’s regulatory blunder is…
Friday Grab Bag
Here are a few recent developments that you may have missed: The House voted yesterday to nullify the impact of a license granted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) in September which would allow Boeing to sell civil…