In November 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement breathlessly announced that it had broken a honey dumping scheme and had indicted three Chinese nationals for trying to avoid dumping duties on Chinese honey by importing mislabeled Chinese honey as rice fructose.…
A federal district court in Chicago recently unsealed a criminal complaint against an Illinois man for importing an oil pump and attempting to import some LED traffic lights from Taiwan to the United States. The reason that these activities are…
ABOVE: Mojtabi Atarodi Back in January 2012, this blog first reported on the strange case of Mojtabi Atarodi, a professor at Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology who was arrested in December 2011 the moment he landed in Los Angeles…
ABOVE: Ian Chow Ian Chow, an Australian expatriate living in New Guinea and who is the managing director of the Lae Biscuit Company in Lae, New Guinea,* pleaded guilty to charges in Australia that he illegally exported ammunition components to New…
According to this investigative report that appeared in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department apparently committed criminal export violations over 10 years ago when it shipped body armor without a license to Cambodia. Surprisingly…