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A few years ago, news items reporting $536 million in forfeitures, $75 million in fines, and multi-year prison sentences for corporate insiders almost certainly would have been recounting major FCPA or securities laws cases
On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order authorizing the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") to expand current sanctions by "Prohibiting Certain Transactions with and Suspending Entry into the United States of Foreign Sanctions Evaders with Respect to Iran and Syria."
As part of its escalating pressure on Syria to cease its crackdown on recent demonstrations, the United States government has imposed a new round of sanctions targeting the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and some of his top aides
With two months until the territory of Southern Sudan secedes from the Republic of Sudan (“Sudan”) to form a new independent state, the U.S. government is providing answers as to how its economic sanctions on Sudan will apply to the new state
In response to the recent events occurring in Libya, the United States government has imposed a series of sanctions and other restrictions on transactions involving the government of Libya
