In 2002 I was fined $10,000 by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, an agency within the Treasury Department) for a 1997 trip I made to Iraq to bring $40,000 in medicine to the children of Basra. I refused to pay the fine. We in turn sued OFAC in 2004 over their fine, but lost. Now I’m being sued for the fine with more than $6,000 additional in interest and penalties. The civil suit will take place September 19, 2011, in federal district court in Seattle. (If you sign up for once-a-month emails I’ll provide details before then.)
The two sub-pages, Timeline and Legal Documents, under this page provide details and links.
The Timeline page provides relevant dates of my travels to Iraq; the fine on me; my refusal to pay; our suit against the government; and now the government’s law suit against me to collect the fine. This page also has links to the legal notices leading up to the fine.
The Legal documents pages then provide more detail about the three levels of our law suit against the government over their fine — which also had given me legal standing to raise the issue of, and to challenge, the lethal nature of U.S. policy towards Iraq.