Mugabe Lobbyists in U.S. Indicted
ABOVE: Robert Mugabe One way to make sure someone is sentenced to life on the SDN list is to make it illegal for anyone to argue for removal of an SDN from the list. Of course, that would be blatantly…
Category OFAC
There’s No Crying in Baseball (Unless OFAC Gets Involved)
ABOVE: Alfredo Despaigne There is no better proof that comprehensive sanctions are useless and silly than this: U.S. sanctions on Cuba are going to prevent the participation of Cuba’s national baseball team in the Caribbean Series which will take place…
That’s Why It’s Called Dirt
As the result of an FOIA request, the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) released a pile of requests by U.S. citizens to import all kinds of things from North Korea, including beer, printer cartridges, children’s shoes, blue jeans (!!),…
OFAC Fines American Express $5 Million for Doing Business in Europe
According to an announcement released yesterday by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the agency fined American Express $5,226,120 because Amex’s overseas offices booked travel to and from Cuba. OFAC justified the size of the fine with a litany…
More Screening Nightmares
I think more needs to be said about OFAC’s greater than 50 percent rule which was covered in yesterday’s post. As you recall, the rule in question says that if a blocked party owns more than 50 percent of another…