An article in today’s Miami Herald provides more details about the settlement agreement that we previously reported and under which freight forwarder Cargoland Air and Ocean Cargo, Inc. agreed to pay a fine of $36,000 to the Bureau of Industry…
The winner of today’s breathlessly exaggerated headline contest goes to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for this: COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, BREAK UP IRANIAN RING CHARGED WITH PROCURING IED COMPONENTS Although this headline conjures up a Eliot Ness…
ABOVE: Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan In yet another strange turn of events in one of the stranger export prosecutions to wend it’s way through the federal courts, a federal district court in Fort Lauderdale declared a mistrial in the prosecution of…
We’re back from vacation and we’re back with a grab bag of things: University of Tennessee Professor J. Reece Roth was convicted on eighteen counts, including violations of the Arms Export Control Act for permitting foreign graduate students to have…
An article in today’s Washington Post provides some interesting insights into the April 2007 conviction of Pennsylvania-based Electro-Glass Products for violations of the Arms Export Control Act arising from the company’s unlicensed exports of 23,000 solder-glass preforms to India. The…