Treasury’s Bore
Juan Zarate’s new book on OFAC, Treasury’s War, is a crashing bore and I have to admit that about half way into it I gave up. Zarate had taken my money to buy the book; I wasn’t going to let…
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General License F Is a Grand Slam for OFAC
I don’t normally talk about cases that I have been involved in on this blog, but I’m going to make a rare exception today to talk about OFAC, tennis and the new General License F announced today. The new general…
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…
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 (!!),…