You may think of “I’m Going to Disney World!” as an iconic slogan from a Superbowl ad, but in many cases they are instead the famous last words of foreign export defendants. Consider Sergei Baltutski, a Belarusian, who said this…
One of the issues that has haunted the efforts by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) to amend its brokering rules has been what to do with lawyers. Are lawyers that assist their clients with transactions involving defense articles brokers…
I don’t normally talk about cases that I have been involved in on this blog, but I’m going to make a rare exception today to talk about OFAC, tennis and the new General License F announced today. The new general…
On Wednesday, my colleague Susan Kovarovics will be in our Dallas office conducting a roundtable on export control reform. The roundtable will discuss the current status of export control reform, particularly the transitioning of certain items from the USML to…
On August 22nd, Patrick Campbell of Sierra Leone was arrested by ICE agents at JFK Airport and charged with violating the Iranian Transactions Regulations. Campbell’s arrest made global headlines because he concealed raw uranium inside shoes in his luggage. According…