Paulson Named Him OFAC Director. That Is the Shop.

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United States Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.

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On August 1, 2006, the Treasury Department announced that Secretary Henry M. Paulson had named Adam Szubin director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The release is still on Treasury’s site as archived content (hp-39).

Treasury wrote that the director “will be responsible for administering and enforcing the United States Government’s economic sanction programs.” The same release said Szubin had been Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, had come from the Justice Department as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, and had been a Civil Division trial attorney on the Terrorism Litigation Task Force. It states a Harvard College and Harvard Law School education and a clerkship for Judge Ronald Gilman on the Sixth Circuit.

That is the appointment. It is not a finding about later Iran policy. It is not a conviction. The later JCPOA fight is a different post.

Sources

U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Adam Szubin Named New OFAC Director,” Aug. 1, 2006. home.treasury.gov

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

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Nine years running OFAC. Then Obama put him in the acting TFI chair and tried to confirm him. The shop that built the Iran sanctions architecture is the same shop that sold the unwind. Dates first. Take later.