Clif Burns

Clif Burns

FIFA and Gazprom: Blame Canada?

Today in conspiracy news, we bring you Canada’s National Post.  The Toronto-based daily speculates that, for some nefarious, but unstated, reason, the Canadian government “waited until the last week of the FIFA Women’s World Cup to sanction” Gazprom, which was one of…

OFAC Sets Mousetrap; Company Takes Cheese

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) recently announced a fine of $391,500 agreed to by John Bean Technologies, a maker of aircraft ground support equipment, to settle charges that it violated the U.S. economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic…

OFAC Fines Bank for Defective Screening Software

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had fined the New York branch of the National Bank of Pakistan $28,800 in connection by seven wire transfers made by the Bank in an amount totaling $55,952.14 to an…