It’s a slow day today in export news, so we’re bringing you a grab bag of various items, each interesting but none worthy of an entire post: Vanderbilt University has announced that it has hired a new assistant director of…
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued a press release today on charges filed against Platte River Associates in Boulder, Colorado, for violating the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. A copy of the criminal information detailing the…
ABOVE: U.S. Attorney Alice Martin The Alex Latifi saga continues. As we have reported in detail here on Export Law Blog, Mr. Latifi was acquitted on charges that emailing a drawing of a Blackhawk helicopter part to a Chinese supplier…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today continued its cage match with Rami Makhluf, the maternal cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and owner of Syriatel, Syria’s largest mobile phone provider. Previously, OFAC has designated Makhluf as an SDN…
ABOVE: Coke and Fanta in Iran A fascinating Associated Press article published today reports the results of an FOIA request the wire service made for information relating to U.S. exports to Iran. According to the information obtained by the AP,…