Nice Work If You Can Get It
If you are annoyed by co-workers who spend the day on eBay and still get paid, you may be even more annoyed to find out that the U.S. government actually pays federal agents on purpose to hang out on eBay…
Criminal Export Charges Settled with $1.25M Fine and 10-Year Denial Order
New-York based electronics wholesaler Earlier this year we reported on an indictment against New-York based electronics wholesaler Sunrise Technologies and Trading Company (“ST&TCâ€) and its president Jeng “Jay†Shih for exporting laptops to Iran by transshipping them through the UAE.…
General License To Be Issued by OFAC for Food Exports to Iran and Sudan
A Federal Register notice is scheduled to be published tomorrow in which the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announces the issuance of a general license for the export of food to Iran and Sudan. Previously, although the Trade Sanctions…
Just Because It’s Not Double Jeopardy Doesn’t Mean It’s Fair
ABOVE: Flowserve HQ The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced on Monday that Texas-based manufacturer Flowserve agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle charges that the company and its foreign affiliates to settle BIS’s allegation of 288 violations of…
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Roth Appeal
ABOVE: Professor Reece Roth The Supreme Court term began today — today being the first Monday in October — and it got right to work by denying the certiorari petition of Professor of Professor J. Reece Roth, a professor emeritus…