Only a few nanoseconds after JPMorgan Chase Bank agreed to pay $88.3 million dollars to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) to settle charges that the bank violated the agency’s sanctions on Cuba, Iran and other countries, the Louisiana…
By now you’ve probably read the JPMorgan Chase Bank (“JPMC”) agreed to pay to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) the whopping amount of $88.3 million to settle charges that it violated just about every sanctions program on OFAC’s…
ABOVE: Juan Pablo Roque (left)Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (right) A jilted wife, a Cuban spy, and OFAC: how could this blog ignore a story involving all three at once? Last week a federal district judge in Miami ruled that Ana Margarita…
When I earlier reported on the latest round of Syria sanctions, which now prohibit exportation of services to Syria, I noted that the executive order did not contain typical exceptions for services that are generally permitted in the case of…