ABOVE: Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan In yet another strange turn of events in one of the stranger export prosecutions to wend it’s way through the federal courts, a federal district court in Fort Lauderdale declared a mistrial in the prosecution of…
Another freight forwarder pays for the sins of its customers. Cargoland Air and Ocean Cargo, Inc., a Miami-based freight forwarder, recently agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security a penalty of $36,000 in connection with its attempted…
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties imposed by OFAC. Among those listed was a $1,769 fine imposed on Aero Vacations, a small travel agency in Los Angeles serving Spanish-speaking customers.…
We’re back from vacation and we’re back with a grab bag of things: University of Tennessee Professor J. Reece Roth was convicted on eighteen counts, including violations of the Arms Export Control Act for permitting foreign graduate students to have…
According to this report from the website of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the trial of Professor J. Reece Roth for violation of the Arms Export Control Act continued today with the testimony of Daniel Max Sherman, the only officer of…