According to a report from television station WTVJ in Miami, Florida, a small group of craftsmen in Cuba are trying to restore “The Pilar,” the fishing boat which was owned by Hemingway and which was captained by Gregorio Fuentes, the…
L-3 entered into a Consent Order last week for export violations of its subsidiary Titan. L-3 acquired Titan in June 2005 several years after the violations had occurred. The violations at issue were the failure by Titan to report commissions…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced this week the indictment of three California men for the attempted export of textile machinery to Iran in violation of the Iranian Transaction Regulations. Two of the men — Babak…
On Monday, October 16, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin demanded that the U.S. lift sanctions that the U.S. had imposed on two Russian firms. The sanctions at issue were imposed on August 4, 2006, by the State Department’s…
In a notice published in today’s Federal Register, BIS has withdrawn the safe harbor and red flag rules that BIS proposed in October 2004. Under those proposed rules, BIS would have increased the number of red flags from 12 to…