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1 Dec 2022, 6:01 pm
Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the issuance of two Venezuela related General Licenses and related Frequently Asked Question revisions:1. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 5:16 am by Yaya J. Fanusie
The interagency responded, most notably with the Treasury Department releasing a report in September titled “The Future of Money and Payments. [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 6:45 am by Jocelyn Trainer
The United States and its allies have frozen $330 billion in assets from Russian elites and Moscow bank funds. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 5:04 pm
“We continue to focus on transnational repression, where Chinese authorities have reached into the United States and other countries to repress people critical of Chinese policies. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Intelligence Report Says Key Gulf Ally Meddled in American Politics MSN – John Howard (Washington Post) | Published: 11/12/2022 A classified report outlines legal and illegal efforts by United Arab Emirates (UAE) to steer U.S. foreign policy in ways favorable to the country. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 5:16 am by Alistair Simmons
Postal Inspection Service and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to dismantle the network of perpetrators involved in mail fraud. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 7:56 am by OTy9gYz
Most recently, in connection with the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed hundreds of individuals on sanctioned persons lists, which operate to limit listed individuals’ access to financial markets.[2] The most recent development of U.S. regulation has been seen following the July 2020 report by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental… [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 5:24 am by Emma Snell
The department said in a release that the Office of Foreign Assets Control issued the designation following a bombing in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu that killed more than 100 people on Saturday, which al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 2:48 pm by William Appleton
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctions of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency and money-laundering platform, and the implications for cryptocurrency regulation if decentralized autonomous organizations like Tornado Cash are afforded First Amendment protections.Jordan Schneider sat down for a conversation with Kevin Wolf, partner at Akin Gump, to discuss the U.S. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 12:03 pm by NARF
United States Department of the Interior (Administrative Procedure Act; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act) The Chickasaw Nation v. [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 2:57 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She also represents and defends clients in investigations, audits, enforcement actions and other dealings with the the Department of Labor, IRS, HHS, DOD, FTC, SEC, CDC and other public health, Department of Justice and a multitude of federal, state, and locate agencies, state attorneys’ general and other federal and state agencies, public and private credentialing, licensing and accreditation bodies, as well as conducts and counsels clients on… [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:16 am by Evan Greer, Lia Holland
In August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) followed Weaver’s advice. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 7:00 am by Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk
Congress has the constitutional power to regulate foreign commerce -– including the power to impose sanctions and to change the rules of foreign state immunity governing Russian state-owned assets. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 4:26 am by Emma Snell
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control placed sanctions on four companies, including an Iranian air transport provider, and one company executive in connection with Tehran’s sale of Shahed drones. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 9:12 pm by Nabil Shaikh
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that uses the Ethereum blockchain, concluding that it has been used in the laundering of over $7 billion in virtual currency since 2019. [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 11:31 am by Jon Brodkin
" The platform was added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN), prohibiting all transactions on Tornado Cash by people in the US "unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC [Office of Foreign Assets Control]", the Treasury Department announcement said. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 11:42 am by Irina Pisareva
Under the TNDA Act, foreign entities of concern include entities:  designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Secretary of State under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); included on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury; owned by, controlled… [read post]