Category OFAC

How To Guarantee the Maximum Penalty

ABOVE: Golden Escrow HQ The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties today and one case, involving Golden Escrow, Inc., caught our eye. The escrow company was accused of attempting to transfer…

Campo de Sueños

The Twin State Peregrines, a little league baseball team from Vermont and New Hampshire, is currently playing ball in Cuba with Cuban teams their own age, the first little league tour of Cuba by an American team since 2000 and…

Who You Gonna Call, Listbusters?

As previously reported on this blog, Syriatel, Syria’s largest provider of mobile phone service, was recently put on the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As a result, U.S. citizens are prohibited from…