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An Iraqi national has been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted of attempting to smuggle guns through the Port of Savannah. Nihad Al Jaberi, 43, of Clarkston, Ga., was sentenced to 94 months in prison after a U.S. District Court jury in February convicted him on charges of Smuggling, Failure to Notify a Common Carrier, and Submitting False or Misleading Export Information, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker also ordered that Al Jaberi be referred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportatio...

Data may debunk the notion that people are feeling “oversubscribed” to video streaming services.

With Export Control Reform moving the jurisdiction of non-military firearms violations to the U.S. Department of Commerce, similar investigations are becoming more common in the export-enforcement realm.

In a joint statement, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI William F. Sweeney Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement (DOC-OEE) Jonathan Carson announced that Rose was arrested Tuesday and will be presented later in the day in Manhattan federal court. “As alleged, Michael Rose participated in a years-long scheme to violate our sanctions by surreptitiously exporting cosmetics to Iran via front company...

The items involved were controlled for “Chemical and Biological Weapons reasons” and thus required a BIS license to be exported to overseas research institutions, which the University had failed to obtain.