Houston-based oil-drilling and oilfield services company Weatherford announced yesterday in its 8-K filing with the SEC that the company has been notified that the Bureau of Industry & Security and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating allegations of improper…
It seems that the story that the prosecutors told to keep Mohammed Alavi in jail pending his trial on charges that he violated the Iranian Sanctions Regulations was just that — a story. On May 31, the trial court issued…
Reader Mike Deal forwarded to me some of the documents filed in the prosecution of Mohammad Alavi, who has been charged with exporting copies of simulation software to Iran in violation of the Iranian Transaction Regulations. The affidavit filed in…
LogicaCMG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of U.K.-based LogicaCMG plc, pleaded guilty last Wednesday to violating the U.S. embargo on Cuba. According to a Department of Justice press release, the violation occurred in 2001 when New Hampshire based CMG, which was…
They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. It also, however, counts in indictments, and the recent Sudarshan indictment, which we reported last week, is a case in point. That indictment is only half right, but that…