In today’s Federal Register, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a decision by an Administrative Law Judge finding William Kovacs in default in responding to a charging letter, fining him $66,000, and suspending his export privileges for five…
The prior post “BIS Continues to Stack Deck Against Voluntary Disclosures” has been updated and revised to reflect the fact that there were two transactions, not one, involved in that case.
Yesterday the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published in the Federal Register an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. In the Notice, BIS proposed to fill in Country Group C of Supplement 1 to Part 740. Under the BIS proposal,…
Magnetic Shield Corporation, the company that made the magnetic shield vault in which the Watergate tapes are stored, filed a voluntary disclosure with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), something it probably now regrets. According to a Charging Letter…
BIS just posted additional information on voluntary self disclosures on its website, including a slightly edited version of Wendy Wysong’s article (paid subscription required) from the December issue of The Export Practitioner entitled “BIS Data Show Benefits of Voluntary Disclosures.”…