Cigars of Mass Destruction
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly summary of penalties imposed by the agency. In one case the agency levied a fine of $31,336 and in another the fine was $2800. One of those two…
Category Cuba Sanctions
OFAC Withdraws Cuba Penalty Imposed on Church Group
A while back we reported on a fine that OFAC imposed on the Alliance of Baptists, a church group which obtained a license for its member churches to travel in Cuba. Some of the member churches had apparently engaged in…
OFAC Pans New Michael Moore Film
Michael Moore probably didn’t get a Christmas card from the Bushes this year — or any year for that matter. But he did recently get a nice letter from OFAC telling him we was under investigation. It seems that Moore…
Saddam’s Stogies
During an investigation of Col. William Steele for alleged improprieties in his oversight of the prison in Baghdad where high value detainees are kept, an interesting tidbit was revealed. Witnesses testified that Col. Steele provided Saddam Hussein with Cuban cigars.…
Bombs, Baseball, Missiles and Red Flowers
A short round-up of current export items that don’t merit their own posts: The Bush administration has lifted the informal arms embargo against Israel and approved the export of 3,500 Mk-84 air bombs to Israel. The last announced sale had…