ABOVE: Lake Garden Hotel Lobby When John Kerry, while attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum hosted by Burma, stayed at the Lake Garden Hotel, a posh French-managed resort in the country’s capital of Nay Pyi Taw,…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today issued new guidanceand revised its FAQs, on its notorious fifty-percent rule. Under that rule, an entity in which a blocked person has a fifty percent interest or greater is itself blocked, even…
Avid readers of this blog will be familiar with the saga of the euphoniously named Nork vessel, the Chong Chon Gang, which was seized by the Panamanians in the Panama Canal while the vessel was attempting to carry a boatload,…
Yesterday Russia published the list of food products that can no longer be imported from the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia and Norway. These sanctions, a curious response to U.S. and E.U. sanctions on Russia, seem calculated to…
OFAC announced that it assessed a $4,073,000 penalty against California-based Epsilon Electronics Inc. Epsilon sells, among other things, audio and video equipment for cars (think of any number of MTV auto-improvement shows). OFAC alleged that over an almost four-year period from…