Yesterday OFAC issued a new set of designations of individuals under the sanctions regime for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In that designation, OFAC amended the designation of Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout to include the DRC Sanctions as the reason…
Since not much is in the news today export-wise, other than OFAC’s addition of “El Mono” Sabogal to the SDN list1, I thought I would bring up something I’ve been wondering about since seeing a Nextel television ad for the…
According to a report from television station WTVJ in Miami, Florida, a small group of craftsmen in Cuba are trying to restore “The Pilar,” the fishing boat which was owned by Hemingway and which was captained by Gregorio Fuentes, the…
This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released its opinion in Sacks v. OFAC, upholding the right of OFAC to adopt rules prohibiting travel to Iraq. Additionally, the court dismissed, in unusually harsh language, OFAC’s argument…
OFAC announced last week that it had reached a settlement with Koch Foods, a major chicken processing firm, arising out of shipments by Koch to Iraq in August 2002. The OFAC announcement follows OFAC’s general policy of providing minimal guidance…