A United Flight from Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, on its way to Cancun, Mexico, over the weekend was diverted for an emergency landing after the crew became concerned about an odd odor on the flight. The closest airport at…
Just how far does the information exception to our economic sanctions programs go? Of course, the traditional response from the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”), the agency that administers the U.S. economic sanctions regimes, is usually “Not very far.”…
John Dennis Tang Ong, a Philippine-born Canadian citizen residing in British Columbia, pleaded guilty in federal court last Thursday to charges that he and an accomplice in the Philippines had conspired to export M-4 rifle parts from the United States…
If you’ve been staying awake at night worried about Cuban terrorist attacks in your neighborhood, you can sleep better now. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has denied a request by Irish-American musicians to travel to Cuba to learn…
File this under the category of all the ways that OFAC helps me sleep better at night. The Sarasota Yacht Club, which was probably founded by Che Guevara, cooked up a scheme to threaten U.S. national security by having a…