Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 20, 2022 New York Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS The Defendant, a U.S. Citizen, Traveled to Saudi Arabia in an Attempt to Join ISIS in Syria A New […]
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Publication of Humanitarian-related Regulatory Amendments and Associated Frequently Asked Questions Release date 12/20/2022 Body The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is amending multiple regulations to add or revise certain general licenses (GLs) across a number of OFAC sanctions programs to ease the delivery of humanitarian […]
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OFSI issues Trade 5 General Licence OFSI has issued General Licence INT/2022/2448692 under Regulation 64 of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. General Licence INT/2022/2448692 allows for a 7 day wind down period in respect to financial prohibitions in Regulations 16, 17 and 18B of the Russia Regulations. The General Licence takes effect from 00:01 on […]
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FinCEN Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Access to Beneficial Ownership Information and Related Safeguards Immediate Release December 15, 2022 WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would implement provisions of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) that govern the access to and protection of […]
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Today, OFAC added the following individual to its counter narcotics sanctions: It also issued a new version of Counter Terrorism General License 21, which extends the expiration date until January 14th: and an updated Frequently Asked Question (FAQ): 1097. What does Counterterrorism-related General License 21A (GL 21A) authorize? Answer GL 21A authorizes […]
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Today, UK regulators issued 30 new sanctions designations, across 7 different sanctions regimes (Global Anti-Corruption, Global Human Rights, Iran (Human Rights), Mali, Myanmar, Russia, South Sudan). Here are those notices: And CAYFIN (the Cayman Islands regulator) issued the same additions… but they send PDFs rather than Web links to them, […]
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My Twitter handle has been reactivated, but I will not be posting to it. It was suggested I not deactivate it so that someone else could not poach the handle… I married a smart woman!
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If the Bloomberg News reporting on changes to Twitter is accurate (apparently, this is showing up on multiple outlets, according to Mrs. Watchlist, who I trust to do the legwork), @MrWatchlist will be disappearing from Twitter. I’m sorry Elon may have overplayed his hand, and overpaid for the firm – […]
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Stage Manager does not seem to play nicely with the WordPress app, so until that gets fixed, it’s going to take a bit longer to post. Real simple: when you click into the text, WordPress’ menu bar obscures where you are… so, right now, I’m composing in Safari, which is […]
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