Notwithstanding an apparent slip-up by undercover agents in a sting which caught a Seattle-area software engineer in a plan to export ITAR-controlled radiation-hardened semiconductor chips to China, the target of the sting, Lian Yang, pleaded guilty today to charges that…
U.S. prosecutors announced today that four members of a Colombian family were indicted by a grand jury on charges that the family attempted to export J85 jet engines from Miami to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo on Iran.…
Last week the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of Zhi Yong Guo for unlicensed exports of thermal imaging cameras in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. According to the facts recited by the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Zhi was…
UK citizen and former U.S. Marine Steven Greenoe (pictured right) pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of violating the Arms Export Control Act and one count of filing a false ATF form in connection with his unlicensed exports of more…
In a previous post on the prosecution of Mark Knapp for his efforts to export a military surplus F-5 fighter jet to Iran, I criticized the apparent defense offered by Knapp’s attorney — that the F-5 could be shot down…