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…
On Tuesday Congress finally passed the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006, which broadens somewhat the existing sanctions scheme in place against Sudan. Under the existing scheme, U.S. companies and individuals may not engage in transactions with senior officials…
In its relentless quest to keep America safe from terrorism, OFAC recently fined a group of Baptists missionaries $34,000 who were on licensed travel to Cuba and who stayed in a hotel near the beach and visited Old Town Havana.…