The black letter law and references in this episode are:
Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control
https://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Pages/Office-of-Foreign-Assets-Control.aspx
50 USC Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 (TWEA)
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title50/pdf/USCODE-2011-title50-app-tradingwi.pdf
50 USC Chapter 35 International Emergency Economic Powers (IEEPA)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-35
Continuation of a National Emergency for North Korean Activities
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/21/continuation-national-emergency-respect-north-korea
North Korea Sanctions
https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/northkorea/index.htm
UN Resolution 2375 on North Korea
http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/doc/2375
A Fact Sheet on UNR 2375
https://usun.state.gov/remarks/7969
Continuation of a National Emergency for Venezuelan Actions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/13/notice-continuation-national-emergency-respect-venezuela
Venezuela sanctions https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/25/presidential-executive-order-imposing-sanctions-respect-situation
BNP Paribas Sanctions Fine
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bnp-paribas-settlement-sentencing/bnp-paribas-sentenced-in-8-9-billion-accord-over-sanctions-violations-idUSKBN0NM41K20150501
ZTE Sanctions Fine
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-over-4304-million-violating-us-sanctions-sending
Economy described as critical infrastructure by DHS
https://www.dhs.gov/financial-services-sector
Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (Incl. Section 216 the Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017) https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr3364/BILLS-115hr3364ih.pdf
Ukraine Freedom Support Act https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-113publ272/pdf/PLAW-113publ272.pdf
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20170825.aspx
Global Magnitsky Act https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s284/BILLS-114s284rfh.pdf
Federal Register Report on the Magnitsky Act https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/20/2017-12791/global-magnitsky-human-rights-accountability-act-report
Myanmar Sanctions Program
https://www.state.gov/burma-sanctions/
JCPOA full text https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/full-text-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal/1651/
Iran Treasury Sanctions https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/iran.aspx
President Trump announces he will not recertify the JCPOA https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/trump-will-refuse-to-certify-iran-nuclear-deal-in-strategic-shift.html
Corker-Cardin Bill, Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s615/BILLS-114s615rs.pdf
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