An article that appeared yesterday on Yahoo News details the war between merchants, consumers and credit bureaus when credit bureaus supply information to merchants indicating that the merchant’s customer is on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s List of Specially…
An FBI press release today announced the indictment of two Chinese citizens, both of whom are now in China and both of whom were in China at the time of the alleged criminal activity, for efforts to export programmable logic…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released settlement documents under which the agency imposed a $23,000 fine on Capintec, Inc., for an unlicensed export of an EAR99 nuclear dose calibrator worth $5,120 dollars to Pakistan. The export required…
During a call today with financial journalists, the Finance Director of Standard Chartered Bank stated that he expected the bank to settle for $330 million federal charges that it violated U.S. sanctions on Iran. Although this settlement has not been…
ABOVE: Diocenyr Ribamar Barbosa-Santos Diocenyr Ribamar Barbosa-Santos, an airline mechanic, was recently charged with violating the Iran sanctions in connection with a wildly improbable deal in which the mechanic was accused of brokering seven Airbus commercial passenger jets to Iran for $136.5 million.…