Note So Fast There
Steve Clemons, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a popular blogger who blogs at The Washington Note, has announced that he will soon be starting The Havana Note. He bills this new blog as a “new resource…
Category OFAC
Before You Name Your Kid, Check the SDN List
If your name is Daniel Garcia, don’t even think of applying for apartment, a job, a mortgage or a car loan. Because you’ll be denied. Thanks, apparently, to increased use of OFAC’s SDN list to scan routine domestic transactions from…
Banana Flambé
News accounts of the circumstances surrounding the agreement of Chiquita Brands to pay a $25 million criminal fine for payments made to a rebel group in Columbia don’t really tell the whole story. That story can be found in the…
Subs Gone Wild!
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released on Friday its civil penalty information for February 2006 and reported that Varian, the Palo Alto scientific instrument giant, agreed to pay $114,958 to settle allegations that its Swiss and German subsidiaries…
Bad Missionaries (Cont’d)
The criminal complaint filed against the two Florida men who obtained Cuba travel licenses for fake churches is amusing reading, at least if you enjoy reading about gangs that couldn’t shoot straight. Some 4,500 people traveled on the fake churches’…