ABOVE: Alexander Fishenko This blog has been covering the export prosecution of Alexander Fishenko for quite some time. Previous posts on this case can be found here and here. Most of my interest has been in the trumped-up Foreign Agents Registration…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) last week updated its Cuba FAQs with this perplexing little blurb that can only charitably actually be called an “answer” or the “A” in FAQ. 68. May a person subject to U.S. jurisdiction…
ABOVE: Harbin Engineering University Amin Yu bought things for Harbin Engineering University (“HEU”) in China — all EAR99 items, none of which required an export license. She listed an incorrect value for the items on documents that she gave to…
On Tuesday of this week two Cuban-born residents of Florida filed a lawsuit against Carnival cruise lines and its subsidiary Fathom Travel for violating their civil rights by refusing to book passage for them on a cruise ship from Miami…
On Monday, according to a DOJ press release published on the Bureau of Industry and Security website, the United States finally extradited Steve Lim, a Singaporean national who had been languishing in a jail in Batam, Indonesia. As we reported…