OFAC Goes Back After Caro Quintero
Rafael Caro Quintero hasn’t been out of jail for three (3) months, and yet the United States Department of the…
The Hangover: OFAC Targets Mexican Tequila Maker
Earlier this week, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed sanctions on a…
SDNY Strikes Again: A Kingpin Has Arrived In America
Last week the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (USAO SDNY) announced the extradition of…
OFAC OGT Gets Busy Removing Kingpins from SDN LIst
Today, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that they were removing 12…
OFAC Kingpin Convicted for Drug Trafficking by a D.C. Jury
Last week Aurelio Cano Flores was convicted by a jury in Washington, D.C. for his involvement in the importation into…
Bad Sanctions: Who’s to Blame?
I was recently re-reading the Judicial Review Commission Report on Foreign Assets Control (“Report”), a 2000 report on the implementation…
OFAC Designates Meza Flores as an SDNTK
Last Friday, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) leveled a Specially Designated Narcotics…
OFAC Designates the Second Wife of El Chapo
This week the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the second wife of…
Is Removal From the OFAC SDN List Possible?
I often hear from frustrated practitioners, as well as Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), contesting SDN designations by the United States…
OFAC Kingpins Put on the SDN List; OFAC Kingpins Removed From the SDN List
Today, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced a host of new designations…