Export Compliance Hits the Tonight Show: Michael Moore Complains to Jay Leno about OFAC
July 2007
So you’re up after 11PM one night, watching Jay Leno on the Tonight Show for a little comic relief after a long day of trying to enhance export compliance in your company. The next thing you know, there is some guy talking to Jay about the US embargo on Cuba and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. First, you think you’re dreaming, just another one of those frequent export compliance nightmares you get after too many years of reading the ITAR and avoiding OFAC facilitation.
But, no, this time you are not having a nightmare. Michael Moore did really complain to Jay Leno that federal officials were going to issue a subpoena to get more information to pursue their case against him for his trip to Cuba to film part of the movie “Sicko.”
According to a Reuters report, Moore’s attorney David Boies has been contacted by a US Department of Commerce division regarding the name of the person who would be accepting the subpoena on Mr. Moore’s behalf.
US Officials May Subpoena Filmmaker Moore
Reuters: July 27, 2007
