ABOVE: Zachary Sanders A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a young American teaching English in Mexico decided to take a trip to Cuba. Today, after fourteen years of legal maneuvering with the Department of Treasury’s Office…
Back in May this blog reported on Secretary of State Clinton’s announcement that the U.S. would issue general licenses permitting export of financial services to, and investment in, Burma. Yesterday those general licenses were issued by the Department of Treasury’s…
Ahem. Here is what Nahal Iravani-Sami, president of the Iranian American Bar Association, has to say about whether retail clerks at Apple Store should sell items to customers even if it is disclosed they plan on illegally exporting those items…
A committee of the New Jersey state senate and a committee of the state assembly both recently approved legislation that would prohibit the state from entering into contracts with companies that do business in Iran. I recently posted on Florida’s…
ABOVE: ING Headquarters On June 12, 2012, ING Bank N.V. (“ING Bankâ€) settled alleged violations of U.S. trade sanctions with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFACâ€) for a record $619 million penalty. ING Bank’s violations…