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Expert Quotes (92):

• The Wall Street Journal - Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Cybercrime Gangs (Quoted as a Financial Crime Expert on Southeast Asia Fraud and Scam Networks)

• The New York Times - Trump Looks For a Silver Bullet to End the Iran War. There May Be None. (Quoted as an Economic Warfare Expert on the Iran War)

• The New York Times - A Few Ships Are Trickling Through the Strait of Hormuz With Iran’s Approval (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Larak Island Shipping Route)

• Financial Times - Tankers Transiting Strait of Hormuz Stop or Turn Around Amid US Blockade (Quoted as a Sanctions and Security Expert on U.S. Blockade of Iran)

• Financial Times - Iranian Tankers Gather Off Sri Lankan Coast (Quoted as an Economic Warfare Expert on the US Blockade of Iran)

• Associated Press - US Hits Cuba With New Sanctions as Island’s Crises Multiply (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on American Policy Towards Cuba)

• The Washington Post - Oil Routes in Peril as Attacks Shut Saudi Pipeline and Houthis Threaten Key Waterway (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert on Global Energy Markets)

• The Washington Post - Oil Prices Leap to $100 a Barrel After Attacks in Red Sea (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Iran War Expert on Bab al-Mandeb Shutdown)

• The Washington Post - Iran Disputes Claims of New Agreements with Trump (Quoted as a Geopolitical and Economic Statecraft Expert on the Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz)

• The Washington Post - Trump Administration Allows For Russian Oil Sales As Energy Prices Soar (Quoted as a Geopolitics and Sanctions Expert on General License 134)

• The Washington Post - Iran Hits Gulf Energy Sites, Escalating War, as U.S. Mulls Sanctions Rollback (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert in the Front Page Article on Iran Oil Sanctions)

• The Washington Post - Oil Executives Warn White House That Gas Prices Will Get Worse (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Oil Expert on Operation Freedom 2.0)

• The Washington Post - U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Millions of Barrels of Iranian Oil (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on General License U)

• The Washington Post - U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Breaking Trump’s Effective Blockade (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on the Anatoly Kolodkin)

• The Washington Post - U.S. Imposes Naval Blockade as Trump Demands Iran End Nuclear Program (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on U.S. Blockade of Strait of Hormuz)

• The Washington Post - Trump Said Iran’s Oil Pipelines Will Soon ‘Explode’. Energy Experts Doubt It. (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Illicit Finance Expert on Operation Economic Fury)

• The Washington Post - Iran’s Oil Lifeline Outlasted The U.S. Assault, Strengthening Its Hand (Quoted as an Illicit Finance and Geopolitical Expert on the US Blockade of Iran)

• Bloomberg - US Reaches Limit of Sanctions Power in Targeting Iran’s Economy (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on Operation Economic Fury)

• Bloomberg - US Senators Announce Deal on New Russia, Iran Sanctions Bill (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on 2026 Russian Sanctions Bill)

• Bloomberg - US Authorizes Sale of Iranian Oil as Part of Peace Deal (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License X)

• Bloomberg - US Again Allows More Russian Oil Sales to Help Control Prices (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License 134B)

• Bloomberg - Iran Juggles Oil Cuts and Storage Strain to Resist U.S. Blockade (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on U.S. Blockade of Iran)

• Bloomberg - Trump’s Iran Truce in Limbo After Renewed Strikes, Sanctions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License X1)

• Bloomberg - Trump Says U.S. Will Begin Blockade of Ships To and From Hormuz (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on U.S. Blockade of Strait of Hormuz)

• Bloomberg - Trump Leaves the Hard Part for Later in Long-Awaited Iran Deal (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert on the U.S./Iran War)

• Bloomberg - U.S. Drops Sanctions on Venezuela’s Rodriguez as Ties Improve (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert of Delcy Rodriguez SDN Delisting)

• Bloomberg - Russia Testing US Energy Blockade of Cuba With Second Oil Tanker (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on U.S. Sanctions Policy)

• Bloomberg - Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Face Early Test in China Meeting (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on the sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil by the Trump Administration)

• Bloomberg - Trump Skips Russian Oil in Xi Talks, Eroding Sanctions Push (Quoted as a Sanction Expert on Sanctions Enforcement Strategy)

• Reuters - US Sanctions Turkish Bank, Two Subsidiaries in Latest Pressure on Iran (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Iran War)

• Reuters - US Treasury Ratchets Up Pressure on Iran With Sweeping New Aviation Sanctions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on OFAC Sanctioning of Iranian Airlines)

• Reuters - US Slaps New Sanctions on Networks Aiding Iran’s Proxies in Middle East (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on Hizballah Sanctions)

• Reuters - Undoing The 'Tangled Nest' of Iran Sanctions Won't Be Easy or Quick (Quoted as a Sanctions and Banking Expert on Iranian Sanctions Risk)

• Reuters - US Issues Fresh Iran-Related Sanctions as Conflict Flares (Quoted as a Sanctions and Iran War Expert on Article 9 of US/Iran MOU)

• Reuters - Trump Wants China’s Help on Iran. Beijing May Have Other Ideas. (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on the Iran War)

• Reuters - U.S. Renews Russian Oil Waiver After Pressure from Countries Dealing with Iran War Price Shocks (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License 134B)

• Reuters - Tehran Can Immediately Sell Oil Upon Signing US-Iran Deal, US Official Says (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on Iran Oil Waivers under MOU)

• Reuters - Hormuz Shipping Risk Raised to Severe After Tankers Hit, Reviving U.S.-Iran Tensions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on the Revocation of General License X)

• Reuters - US Imposes Sanctions on Cambodian Senator and 28 Others for Alleged Crypto-Romance Scams (Quoted as a Financial Crimes Expert on Southeast Asian Fraud and Scam Networks) 

• Reuters - U.S. Allows 30-Day Sale of Iran Oil at Sea in Bid to Tame Prices (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on General License U)

• Reuters - U.S. Broadly Authorizes Transactions with Venezuela’s Oil Company PDVSA (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on GL-52)

• Reuters - Trump Reverses Course on Cuban Oil Blockade, Allows Russian Tanker to Pass (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on the Anatoly Kolodkin)

• Reuters - U.S. Imposes Sanctions on 35 Individuals, Entities for Aiding Iran’s Sanctions Evasion (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Iran-Linked Sanctions)

• Reuters - At Least 25 Sanctioned Russian Ships Pass Through UK Waters After Boarding Threat (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Russian Shadow Fleet)

• Reuters - US Waives Shipping Regulation to Ease Fuel, Fertilizer Deliveries (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert)

• Reuters - Trump Announces Peace Agreement Between Armenia and Azerbaijan (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on the Caucasus Sanctions Evasion Corridors used by Russia and China) 

• Reuters - US Imposes Sanctions on 13 Tied to Iran Weapons Procurement (Quoted as a Sanctions and Iran War Expert on New OFAC Sanctions)

• Reuters - US Sanctions Target Iran's Auto, Rail Sectors as Blockade Chokes Ship Lanes (Quoted as a Sanctions and Iran War Expert on Sanctions Targeting Rail and Automotive Sectors)

• Al-Jazeera - Trump announces ‘most crushing economic operation ever’ against Iran (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Iran War Expert on Economic Fury 2.0)

• Al-Jazeera - US Threat of ‘Economic D-Day’ for Iran Tests Trump’s China Detente (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on Escalation of Economic Warfare in Iran War)

• Politico - CENTCOM Announces Retaliatory Strikes on 3 Iranian Oil Tankers (Quoted as a Geopolitical Risk Expert on the United States’ New “Tanker for Tanker” Policy)

• Politico - One Beneficiary of the Iran war? Pirates. (Quoted as a Geopolitical Risk Expert on Reemergence of Somali Hijackings During Iran War)

• Politico - Treasury Extends Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver For Another Month (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on GL-134C)

• Politico - Iran "Has Played Their Ace" (Quoted as a Geopolitical and Economic Warfare Expert on US/Iran War)

• The Hill - Proxy Fight in Yemen Heats Up, Risking New Front in U.S.-Iran War (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert in U.S.-Iran War)

• The Hill - Trump Returns to ‘Vicious Cycle’ With Iran, Leaving MOU on Life Support (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Sanctions Expert on The Second US Blockade of Iran)

• The Hill - Trump Scraps Latest Peace Talks After Iranian Officials Depart Pakistan (Quoted as a Geopolitical and Economic Warfare Expert on Operation Economic Fury)

• Al-Monitor - U.S. Blockade Tests Iran’s Limits, But Will Global Pain Force Trump’s Hand? (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on U.S. Blockade of Iran)

• Al-Monitor - Iran Gambles it Can Outlast Trump’s 'Economic D-Day' (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on US/Iran War Economic Warfare Strategy)

• Al-Monitor - US Hits 27 Iranian Airlines With Latest Sanctions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on OFAC Sanctioning of Iranian Airlines)

• Radio Free Europe - US Sanctions All Remaining Iranian Airlines In Sweeping Aviation Crackdown (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on OFAC Sanctioning of Iranian Airlines)

• Radio Free Europe - US Targets Turkish Bank In New Bid To Cut Iran's Financial Lifelines (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Operation Economic Outcast Sanctions)

• Radio Free Europe - US Promises 'Unprecedented' Economic Isolation Of Iran. What Could That Mean? (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Sanctions Expert on the U.S./Iran War)

• Radio Free Europe - US Lets Russian Oil Waiver Linked to Iran War Expire, Reimposing Sanctions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on the Expiration of GL-134B)

• Radio Free Europe - U.S. Quietly Renews Russian Oil Waiver Amid Market Turmoil, Policy Confusion (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on GL-134B)

• Radio Free Europe - End Of Iran Sanctions Waiver Sharpens Focus On Financial Pressure (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on GL-U)

• Radio Free Europe - US Extends Russian Oil Waiver As Bessent Urges Tougher Iran Sanctions (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on GL-134C)

• Radio Free Europe - US Expands Pressure Campaign With New Sanctions On Iran's Financial Networks (Quoted as a Sanctions and Iran War Expert on Article 9 of US/Iran MOU)

• CBS News - Bessent Announces Campaign to Create "Economic Onslaught" Against Iran and its Partners (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Sanctions Expert on “Economic D-Day)

• CNBC - Tanker Diplomacy: Trump Faces Tests from Havana to Hormuz (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Statecraft Expert on Tanker Diplomacy Theory)

• Axios - Iran War’s Ripple Effects Hit Key U.S. Trading Partners (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert on Iran War’s Impact on Asian Energy Security)

• Axios - U.S. Officials Believe Sanctions Could Hurt Iran More Than Bombs (Quoted as a Sanctions and Economic Warfare Expert on U.S./Iran War)

• NBC News - Multiple Russian Incursions Expose Contrast Between U.S. and Allies’ Responses (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Russian Sanctions Implementation Strategy)

• Newsweek - Here’s How Much Iran Could Make From US Oil Sanctions Waiver (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License X)

• Newsweek - Oil and Gas Trade Will Never Be the Same After the Iran War (Quoted as a Geopolitical Expert on Global Energy Market Impact of Iran War)

• Newsweek - Donald Trump’s 50-Day Deadline to Russia Expires (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Secondary Sanctions on Russia)

• Newsweek - Republican Demands $100,000,000 Bounty for Nicolás Maduro (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on the Trump Administration's use of Sanctions to Target Drug Trafficking Networks)

• Newsweek - Satellite Photos Capture US Navy Fleet Approaching Venezuela (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Drug Cartels)

• Newsweek - Trump’s Move Against Maduro in Venezuela Might Not Go to Plan (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Combating the Financing of Terrorism)

• Newsweek - NATO Scrambles Fighter Jets Again After Major Russian Attacks (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Sanctions Strategy)

• Newsweek - How Much Ukrainian Land Russia Would Lose As Trump Shifts Stance (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Geopolitics)

• Newsweek - Why Trump’s ‘Groundbreaking’ Russia Sanctions May Not Deliver Knockout Blow (Quoted as a Sanctions Expert on Russian Sanctions Imposed on Rosneft and Lukoil)

• CBS News - Bessent Announces Campaign to Create "Economic Onslaught" Against Iran and its Partners (Quoted as an Economic Warfare and Sanctions Expert on “Economic D-Day)

• Reason - Trump Lets Americans Buy Iranian Oil for the First Time Since the 1980s (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on General License X)

• ABC Australia - Iran is Trying to Formalise its Control Over the Strait of Hormuz, But There Are Some Obvious Problems (Quoted as a Sanctions and Geopolitical Expert on Iran-related Sanctions & TF Laws)

• ABC Australia - US and Iran Negotiations in 'Deadlock', But Ships Are Finding Ways to Cross the Strait of Hormuz (Quoted as a Sanctions and Terror Financing Expert on the Persian Gulf Strait Authority)

• ABC Australia - US Strikes Iran and Reinstates Oil Sanctions, But Tehran Has Already Raked in Billions (Quoted as a Sanctions and Iran War Expert on Iranian Oil Revenues)

• DropSite News - Why Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Is Not Exploding Like Trump Said It Would (Quoted as an Economic Warfare Expert on Iran’s Oil Well Shut-In Strategy)

• The Banker - Why Rogue Trading Will Bedevil Banking for Years to Come (The Bankers 100 Year Anniversary Issue, quoted alongside Nick Leeson and Kweku Adoboli, the most notorious Rogue Traders in history from Barings Bank and UBS)

• The Banker - £250mn and Counting: Fines Against Banks Rack Up for Financial Crime Failings (Quoted as Financial Crime and Compliance Expert on U.K. Financial Crime Enforcement Trends)

• The Banker - On Brand: The 50 Fastest Growing Global Banks (Quoted as a Financial Crimes Expert on the Cover of October 2025’s Issue of The Banker)

• The Banker - HSBC Poised to Pay $300mn to Settle French Tax Investigation (Quoted as a Financial Crime and Fraud Expert on Investment Dividend Tax Evasion)

• The Banker - Spotlight Shifts to BNP and SocGen After HSBC Settles French Tax Probe (Quoted as a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert on Letter of Law vs. Spirit of Law)

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Publications (46):

• The Hill - Bank of America’s Fine is a Warning to Wall Street

• The Hill - Another Blockade of Iran is Doomed to Fail

• The Hill - Trump Should Remove The Iran War’s Most Dangerous Tripwire

• The Hill - Trump's New Front In The War On Cartels: The Banks

• The Hill - Maximum Pressure on Cuba Has Become Strategic Overkill

• The Hill - The Backlash to Iranian Oil Sanctions Relief Misses The Point

• The Hill - Banks Are Carrying the Risk of America's Foreign Policy

• The Hill - Trump's Tariffs are Forcing Canada to Address its Money Laundering Problem

• The Hill - Australia is Closing the Money Laundering Loopholes the US Keeps Open

• The Hill - Geopolitical Turmoil is Distracting Washington From a Volatile Southern Border

• The Hill - FinTech Has Outpaced The Guardrails Meant To Protect It

• American Banker - Adopting an Offensively Defensive Approach to Financial Crime

• American Banker - Why Financial Crime Training is Falling Behind the Threat Environment

• American Banker - Eliminating Reputational Risk Oversight Was A Regulatory Mistake

• American Banker - Sanctions on Russia Were Just a Warm-Up For a Future Crisis with China

• Newsweek - America Wants to Lead in Crypto. The Risk Reality is More Complicated.

• Newsweek - Illicit Oil is the Vulnerability We Should be Targeting

• Newsweek - The Sanctions Era Is Quietly Ending. The West Isn't Ready.

• Newsweek - Syria 2025 Is Iraq All Over Again

• Newsweek - The New Pragmatism Reshaping Syria, and the Risks Ahead

• Newsweek - Trump Just Lost His Tariff Leverage. Secondary Sanctions Are His Last Chance

• Newsweek - What Ted Cruz's Iran Moment Reveals About America's Foreign Policy Illiteracy

• Nikkei Asia - Model Behavior: Southeast Asian Cyberscam Crackdown Must Be a Template

• Nikkei Asia - A Rare US Diplomatic Win, and the Lessons it Offers

• The Banker - How Geopolitics is Reshaping Financial Crime Risks for Global Institutions

• The Banker - The Unspoken Risk in the UK's FinTech Expansion

• The Diplomat - Southeast Asia's Fraud Networks and the Countries Paying the Price

• The Diplomat - China, Kyrgyzstan, and the Quiet Construction of a Sanctions-Resistant Trade Corridor (Selected as Front Page Featured Article)

• The Diplomat - The West Can't Survive The Sanctions It Needs To Deter China (Selected as Front Page Featured Article)

• The Diplomat - Australian Watchdog Sounds Alarm on Illicit Financial Networks (Selected as a Front Page Featured Article)

• The Diplomat - Building the Sanctions Infrastructure the West Needs to Face China, Now.

• The Diplomat - How Russia Used Kyrgyzstan To Reopen Its Financial Escape Routes

• Seeking Alpha - Deutsche Bank Has Fixed Its Numbers, But Not Its Reputation

• Seeking Alpha - Wells Fargo Is A Compliance-Constrained Compounder Now Set Free

• Seeking Alpha - Glencore Is A Mispriced Commodities Giant With Multi-Resource Tailwinds

• Compliance Week - A Snapshot of the State of Financial Crime in the United States

• Compliance Week - Why Audit Won't Save Your Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program

• Compliance Week - Risk-Based AML Only Works If The C-Suite Agree What 'Risk' Means (Front Page Feature)

• Compliance Week - Bribery Exposure Doesn't Start With Policy Failure. It Starts With Training. 

• ACAMS Today - Offshore Trust Structures and Feeder Fund Mechanisms: Assessing Vulnerabilities within U.S. Financial Institutions

• ACAMS Today - Building Resilient Anti-Bribery and Corruption Frameworks

• ACFE Fraud Magazine - High-Net-Worth Clients Can Be High-Risk Clients

• RealClearWorld - Russia Will Strike Back Because The West Has Nothing Left

• RealClearWorld - China Is Watching As Russia's Strategic Deterrence Burns

• RealClearWorld - The LNG Loophole Funding Russia's War

• RealClearDefense - Why Russia's Nuclear Program Still Runs On Western Equipment

• Lawyers Weekly - Lawyers Understand The Law. Criminals Understand The Mechanics.