Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s media arm, the Washington Times, has made a shocking discovery: lawyers represent clients. Washington Times reporter Jim McElhatton reveals this horrifying discovery in a piece he wrote on Eric Hirschhorn, the Obama administration’s nominee to head…
Last week, in his speech before the Ex-Im Bank, President Obama provided some details about the specific export control reforms which might be in the offing. The first relates to our ludicrously archaic and burdensome system of encryption controls. Obama…
ABOVE: Valid Alaghband Valid Alaghband, Chairman of the Balli Group, which just agreed to a $17 million fine to settle charges that it exported U.S.-origin commercial passenger aircraft to Iran, took to the pages of the daily student newspaper of…
For several years now the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has had the statutory authority to impose a civil penalty of $250,000 per export violation but has yet impose anything near that fine. So when BIS finally whacks someone…
North Carolina based law enforcement supply company Sirchie has signed, and a federal court has entered, a deferred prosecution agreement under which Sirchie agreed to pay $12.6 million in penalties with $2 million of those penalties going to the Department…