ABOVE: Epic Games HQ Although I confess to being baffled as to why grown-ups play online video games (at least until after they have read the entire Western canon), recently a grown-up (and a college professor at that) pitched a…
Back in August, we detailed the sad story of Production Products, a small family-run business in Maryland that sent OFAC into a tizzy and received a $78,5000 fine because, heaven forfend, the company had never heard of the SDN list…
A federal court recently upheld, in OKKO Business v. Lew, a decision by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) to refuse to unblock funds sent by a Ukrainian company as an auction deposit for an auction conducted by a…
We reported earlier this week on an anticipated policy announcement by the White House that would permit families of hostage victims to pay ransoms to the captors without fear of prosecution by the federal government. Of course, we wondered whether…
A number of press reports today, including this one, indicate that the Obama Administration will announce on Wednesday that it was revising its policies and will no longer threaten to prosecute families that pay ransoms to terrorists in an effort…