Don’t Leave Home With It
Since not much is in the news today export-wise, other than OFAC’s addition of “El Mono” Sabogal to the SDN list1, I thought I would bring up something I’ve been wondering about since seeing a Nextel television ad for the…
The Old Man and the Sanctions
According to a report from television station WTVJ in Miami, Florida, a small group of craftsmen in Cuba are trying to restore “The Pilar,” the fishing boat which was owned by Hemingway and which was captained by Gregorio Fuentes, the…
L-3 Pays the Price For Titan’s Commission Payments
L-3 entered into a Consent Order last week for export violations of its subsidiary Titan. L-3 acquired Titan in June 2005 several years after the violations had occurred. The violations at issue were the failure by Titan to report commissions…
ICE Stings Three in California
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced this week the indictment of three California men for the attempted export of textile machinery to Iran in violation of the Iranian Transaction Regulations. Two of the men — Babak…
U.S.-Russia Row Over Nonproliferation Sanctions Proliferates
On Monday, October 16, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin demanded that the U.S. lift sanctions that the U.S. had imposed on two Russian firms. The sanctions at issue were imposed on August 4, 2006, by the State Department’s…