Robert Bigelow is a Las Vegas hotel billionaire who owns Bigelow Aerospace and wants to put a Budget Suites of America motel somewhere in space near you. Such facilities are apparently called privately-owned orbital facilities or POOFs. Seriously. Of course,…
Virginia-based Wavelab pleaded guilty today to charges that it exported 2,400 microwave power amplifiers to China without the required licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). The company also agreed to forfeit the $85,000 it was paid for…
Seyed Mostafa Maghloubi, an American citizen of Iranian origin, was sentenced today to three years and five months in connection with his attempt to export night vision goggles and up to 10,000 Uzis to Iranian government officials opposed to the…
ABOVE: Berkut 360 kit plane The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a final order today denying export privileges to Ali Asghar Manzarpour for twenty years. The denial order is premised on allegations by BIS that Manzarpour attempted to…
The New York Times has a story today on one Steve Marshall, a British citizen living in Spain and running a Cuba travel agency. It seems that Mr. Marshall had 80 of his websites shut down by his U.S. registrar…