<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/4814/"></div>It should be obvious by now that whenever the U.S. faces any sort of national security threat, one of the primary responses is the imposition of sanctions. So as evidence mounted that November’s massive The Interview-related cyber-attack was of North Korean origin, the countdown started on the United States’ (i.e. Treasury’s) inevitable response. That response […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter
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<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/adios-el-bloqueo-u-s-announces-major-changes-to-cuba-embargo/"></div>Last week, over five decades of U.S. sanctions policy came crashing down with the announcement that the Obama administration would begin an effort to relax the Cuban embargo and normalize relations with our communist neighbor to the south. The first step in this process was the release of former USAID contractor Alan Gross, who had […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/how-congress-got-their-way-and-almost-blew-up-the-iran-nuclear-deal/"></div>Sometime ago my Policy Adviser, Samuel Cutler, wrote an article that was featured on this blog were he highlighted the use of sanctions designations as strategic communications. The basic idea is that designations are used not only to effectuate pressure upon a particular target to compel a change in behavior but also to send a […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-issues-red-card-to-colombian-evigado-futbol-club-s-a-november-22-2014-ferrari-associates-p-c/"></div>Apparently OFAC has decided that 7 months is too long a period to go without placing a Colombian soccer team on the SDN list. Included among the 10 individuals and 14 entities associated with the La Oficina de Envigado drug trafficking organizationdesignated this week by Treasury, is theEnvigado Futbol Club S.A. Enivgado F.C. is a […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/mo-yanni-mo-problems/"></div>According to the BBC, Greek pianist Yanni (yes that Yanni) is scheduled to perform shows in Tehran and vacation destination Kish Island. This information comes courtesy of an official from Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance. While it’s definitely a positive sign that Iranian authorities seem to be slightly lengthening their leash when it […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/sanctions-are-hard-ofac-corrects-their-own-faq-mistake/"></div>If sanctions were easy, we’d be out of a job and there would be no need for this blog. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that even the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) occasionally gets something wrong and is forced to issue a correction. Billed as an […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/sanction-law-halloween-edition-ofac-reanimates-the-burma-sanctions-program/"></div>Apparently Halloween is a holiday celebrated by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) because the sanctions investigators over at OFAC’s Office of Global Targeting (OGT) have decided to bring the Burma sanctions program back from the dead. Today’s designation of Aung Thaung, a member of Myanmar’s* lower house […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health-insurance-provider/"></div>This post may not be reaching the correct audience, but for those not aware, there’s an arm of the United States Department of the Treasury called OFAC, or the Office of Foreign Assets Control if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. Its job is to administer U.S. sanctions on targeted countries, such as Cuba, […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/lobbying-without-a-license-the-ofac-edition/"></div>A Chicago jury has confirmed what all of us in the U.S. sanctions world should already know (I hope) – that lobbying representatives of state and federal legislatures on behalf of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (“SDNs”) is not a good idea. On Friday, C. Gregory Turner was convictedof conspiracy to violate the International […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/99-problems-but-ofac-aint-one/"></div>In April 2013, the words “Office of Foreign Assets Control” appeared on the E! News website. While initially this strange clashing of worlds was feared to be a sign of the apocalypse, further investigation revealed it to be the result of a honeymoon trip to Cuba by one Sean “Jay-Z” Carter and his wife Beyoncé […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt