Samuel Cutler January 13, 2015 Treasury Rings in the New Year with DPRK Sanctions It should be obvious by now that whenever the U.S. faces any sort of national security threat, one of the…
Samuel Cutler December 25, 2014 Adios El Bloqueo? U.S. Announces Major Changes To Cuba Embargo Last week, over five decades of U.S. sanctions policy came crashing down with the announcement that the Obama administration would…
Samuel Cutler December 13, 2014 How Congress Got Their Way And Almost Blew Up The Iran Nuclear Deal Sometime ago my Policy Adviser, Samuel Cutler, wrote an article that was featured on this blog were he highlighted the…
Samuel Cutler November 22, 2014 OFAC Issues Red Card To Colombian Evigado Futbol Club S.A. Apparently OFAC has decided that 7 months is too long a period to go without placing a Colombian soccer team…
Samuel Cutler November 16, 2014 Mo’ Yanni, Mo’ Problems According to the BBC, Greek pianist Yanni (yes that Yanni) is scheduled to perform shows in Tehran and vacation destination…
Samuel Cutler November 6, 2014 Sanctions Are Hard: OFAC Corrects Their Own FAQ Mistake If sanctions were easy, we’d be out of a job and there would be no need for this blog. So…
Samuel Cutler October 31, 2014 Sanction Law Halloween Edition: OFAC Reanimates The Burma Sanctions Program Apparently Halloween is a holiday celebrated by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”)…
Samuel Cutler October 30, 2014 OFAC Can Be Hazardous To Your Health (Insurance Provider) This post may not be reaching the correct audience, but for those not aware, there’s an arm of the United…
Samuel Cutler October 15, 2014 Lobbying Without A License: The OFAC Edition A Chicago jury has confirmed what all of us in the U.S. sanctions world should already know (I hope) –…
Samuel Cutler August 25, 2014 99 Problems But OFAC Ain’t One In April 2013, the words “Office of Foreign Assets Control” appeared on the E! News website. While initially this strange…