An Arizona man and his company Marsh Aviation have been indicted for conspiring to provide defense services to the Venezuelan Air Force and exporting military aircraft engine to Venezuela without the required licenses. The engines in question were Garrett T-76…
In the latest disclosure of civil penalty information by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the agency describes a Letter of Violation that it issued against an international evangelical group called Christ for All Nations. According to the disclosure, the…
Regular readers are familiar with this blog’s occasional posts on press releases where companies boast that they have registered with the Department of Defense Trade Controls. These press releases describe certain imaginary attributes of this registration, usually that it is…
Earlier this month, a federal district court judge in New York ruled that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) was required to disclose to the New York Times the names of all individuals who had been granted licenses relating…
The recently-passed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 (“CISADA”) ended the import of Persian rugs into the United States. According to this post in the Wall Street Journal‘s Corruption Currents blog, officials at the Office of Foreign…