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Timothy O'Toole Discusses Impact of Final U.S. Sanctions Acts by Trump Administration in Reuters

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"Cooking Oil or Crude? Italian Restaurant Owner was Mistaken Target of U.S. Sanctions"

Reuters

Timothy O'Toole, Member at Miller & Chevalier Chartered, commented on sanctions implemented by former President Trump's Treasury Department against an Italian restaurant owner, Alessandro Bazzoni, as part of a crackdown on blacklisted Venezuelan crude oil. The Trump administration, on its last full day in office, imposed sanctions on a different Alessandro Bazzoni and on companies Treasury assumed were tied to Bazzoni, which mistakenly included the Italian restaurant owner's business, over accusations that he was tied to a network attempting to evade sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector. "At the end of the Trump administration, they were doing a lot really, really fast with respect to Venezuela, Iran, and China," O'Toole said, adding "when you move that fast, you tend to make mistakes."