Erich Ferrari January 2, 2010 Former President of the Alavi Foundation Pleads Guilty Happy New Year and welcome to 2010! Farshid Jahedi, the former president of the Alavi Foundation, has pleaded guilty to…
Erich Ferrari December 19, 2009 OFAC Caps off a Huge 2009 With Their Biggest Settlement Ever In a year of absolutely huge fines and settlements for violations of sanctions programs, the United States Department of the…
Erich Ferrari December 18, 2009 Lose One Kingpin, OFAC Adds Seven More Well unless you have been living under a rock–or simply just don’t follow the developments in Mexico’s drug war–Arturo Beltran…
Erich Ferrari December 9, 2009 Changes to the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations Just in time for Christmas the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has provided new…
Erich Ferrari December 8, 2009 There Are a Lot of New Kingpins Call off the search party……I’m back. I apologize for being gone so long, but I have been busy moving my…
Erich Ferrari November 18, 2009 ANZ Got the Message A few months ago I wrote on the large amount of money ANZ Bank had to pay to the United…
Erich Ferrari November 18, 2009 Why the Decision in Kindhearts is Needed I read an article this morning which stated that hopefully the judiciary would overturn the decision in Kindhearts v. Geithner…
Erich Ferrari November 13, 2009 OFAC Extends General License in Regards to Belarus Sanctions Designees The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has extended a General License for U.S.…
Erich Ferrari November 12, 2009 OFAC Enforcement Guidelines I’m a little late on this, as I have been on travel most of this week. However, The United States…
Erich Ferrari November 6, 2009 Bank Mellat Chairman; Iranian Bank Subsidiary Designated under Non-Proliferation Sanctions Regulations In its continuing battle against one of Iran’s biggest banks, The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign…