ABOVE: Alexander Fishenko Almost two years ago, this blog reported on the charges against Alexander Fishenko who, among other things, was accused of shipping various USML and CCL items to the Russian government without a license. Yesterday, according to this…
I’m not sure that chutzpah is a term applicable to government agencies, but, if it is, this is chutzpah. The International Trade Commission announced that it is investigating how Cuban non-tariff measures, Cuban institutional and infrastructural factors, and other Cuban…
A recent article in the Miami Herald discussed the bureaucratic entanglements involved when world-famous athlete Diana Nyad wanted to make a historic swim between Florida and Cuba. She needed an OFAC license to visit Cuba. Her support team needed a…
Recently, the Department of Defense issued an interim rule that would impose on DOD contractors and subcontractors a contractual duty to provide “adequate security†from “unauthorized access and disclosure†for a broad array of unclassified information Additionally, the interim rule…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) whacked UBS AG, a Swiss bank, with a $1,700,100 penalty today. (That extra $100 is there to prove that OFAC reached this penalty in a super-accurate and completely scientific fashion.) The fine arises from…