As the third month of the second Trump administration comes to a close, the lack of any public enforcement action by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctions watchers...more
4/25/2025
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Iran ,
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Executive Summary -
On November 5, 2018, the United States enacted the second of two powerful phases of the “snap-back” of Iran sanctions, re-imposing sanctions that were lifted by the United States in 2016 as a result of...more
On August 6, 2018, President Trump signed an executive order (“New Iran E.O.”) directing the Secretaries of State and the Treasury to re-impose sweeping sanctions on Iran, effecting the policy announced on May 8, 2018, to...more
Arrest of a Chinese National on Hacking Charges Illustrates How U.S. Tactics Are Changing to Meet the New Cyber Threat -
In August, Yu Pingan, a Chinese national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to acquire and...more
10/23/2017
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China ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Foreign Agents ,
Fourth Amendment ,
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Iran ,
North Korea ,
Russia ,
Sanctions ,
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