ABOVE: Cuban oil well Last week we reported on criminal charges filed against a Colorado software company for violating the Cuba embargo. We had hoped to see the criminal information when it became public because the charges seemed, well, a…
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued a press release today on charges filed against Platte River Associates in Boulder, Colorado, for violating the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. A copy of the criminal information detailing the…
An article in today’s CNN Money contains some interesting tidbits about Weatherford’s operations in sanctioned countries, which we first reported here, and which have been the subject of a governmental investigation. First, the article notes that Weatherford’s divestment of its…
The New York Times has a story today on one Steve Marshall, a British citizen living in Spain and running a Cuba travel agency. It seems that Mr. Marshall had 80 of his websites shut down by his U.S. registrar…
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…