The arm of U.S. enforcement can reach over decades and thousands of miles to grab foreign citizens who have never set foot in the United States in order to throw them in U.S. prisons. Last week, Reza Dindar, who had…
A federal jury in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida recently acquitted Patrick Campbell on charges that alleged he attempted and conspired to violate U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. As we reported at the time of his arrest last year, Campbell, who is from Sierra…
In a recent DoJ press release correcting a previous press release that incorrectly stated that the DoJ had indicted someone on export charges that they hadn’t actually indicted him on (oops!), the DoJ took the opportunity to try to explain…
The Washington Post this week reported on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Monday video message reiterating that no company can be “too big” to be “immune from prosecution.” The Post went on to report, as others have, that the Justice…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that it charged Li Fangwei, a Chinese national, with violating U.S. sanctions against Iran as well as with federal fraud violations. Li, also known by a panoply of aliases including Karl Lee, Sunny…