ABOVE: Ulrich Davis Mugshot On May 15, Ulrich Davis, a citizen and resident of the Netherlands, was sentenced to six months in prison and a $2,000 fine. He was charged with violating a Temporary Denial Order issued by the Bureau…
A recently filed criminal complaint accuses a former U.S. soldier of using eBay to export military items he obtained while serving in Iraq. Specifically, the defendant is accused of the unlicensed export of an Atilla-200 laser aiming device to Japan.…
Usually criminal export defendants are in the dock for exports of night vision, stun guns, or high-tech chemical processing equipment. Today we have criminal defendants who were indicted for exporting insufficiently chilled chickens from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Russia, proving, I…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents detailing a settlement that it entered into with Mattson Technologies relating to Mattson’s unlicensed exports of pressure transducers classified under ECCN 2B230. That ECCN covers pressure transducers with pressure sensing…
A long article published today on the Bloomberg News website tells the story of a voluntary disclosure by Georgia Tech after one of its instructors inadvertently posted some export-controlled data on the Internet. The article follows this anecdote up with…