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Designations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • Iran, USA
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  • February 28 2011

On February 23rd, the Treasury Department designated two Iranian officials, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran Prosecutor General, and Mohammed Reza Naqdi, commander of the IRGC's Basij Forces, as responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses in Iran since the disputed June 2009 presidential election

Treasury designates two individuals for supporting terrorist activities

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2010

On April 1st, Treasury targeted the financial and support networks of al Qai'da in Iraq, al-Qai'da and Islamic Jihad Union by designating two Europe-based individuals for providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism under Executive Order 13224

Crime & corruption

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2011

Federal Election Commission (FEC) staff issued an audit report questioning more than $14.4 million worth of “independent expenditures” by the SEIU during the 2008 presidential campaign

Justice Department production of documents does not create a SEC FOIA waiver

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 12 2011

On December 9th, the D.C. Circuit upheld the SEC's assertion of exemption 5 to a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request submitted by Williams & Connolly

Senate passes ethics bill

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2012

On February 2nd, the Washington Post reported that the Senate has overwhelmingly passed an ethics bill that not only prohibits insider trading by legislators and their staff, but also prohibits insider trading by senior officials in the executive branch

Campaign contributions from convicted Ponzi schemer must be returned

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2012

On October 23rd, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's order finding that $1.6 million in campaign contributions made by convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford to various Democratic and Republican campaign committees must be returned to the SEC-appointed receiver for Stanford's companies as fraudulent transfers

Financial services update, vol. 8, number 19

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

In 2012, Congress enacted the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (or the "STOCK Act"), in an effort to ban insider trading by members of

Treasury Department targets hHzballah financial network

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2010

On December 9th, the Treasury Department targeted Hizballah's financial network by designating Hizballah fundraisers Ali Tajideen and Husayn Tajideen

Designations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2011

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated the financial networks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the country's national maritime carrier, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines

Treasury Department designations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2009

On October 14th the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the senior leadership of the Kongra-Gel as significant foreign narcotics traffickers