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OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List March 5, 2024 ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND BLOCKED PERSONS ("SDN List"): This publication of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is designed as a reference tool providing actual notice of actions by OFAC with respect to Specially Designated Nationals and other persons (which term includes both individuals and entities) whose property is blocked, to assist the public in complying with the various sanctions programs administered by OFAC. The latest changes to the SDN List may appear here prior to their publication in the Federal...

On September 12, 2018, by Executive Order 13848, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 etseq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the threat of foreign interference in or undermining public confidence in United States elections. Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcomes or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system. In recent years, the proliferation...

Have you wondered why President Trump doesn’t seem defeated or worried about the recent legal set backs? Sure, we know that China has bought and sold our American legislators and many judges… and President Trump knows that too.But, there’s something that only a few people are talking about that is the key to this whole election rig: Executive Order 13848.Harder the battle the more glorious the victory 🇺🇸𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 EO 13848𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥 𝐂𝐨'𝐬 EO 13959Understand that Donald Trump is not an idiot. In fact, he’s a brilliantly shrewd man. He...

On Sept. 12, President Trump signed Executive Order 13848, titled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.” Reporting in early August suggested that such an order was being drafted, though—as will be discussed below—it appears to have changed in some meaningful ways. The document opens by finding that foreign persons’ “ability … to interfere in or undermine public confidence in [U.S.] elections … constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the [U.S.],” thus triggering the president’s authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), codified...