That's a good question - in this case the linked document says that the US Treasury Dept Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) contacted the US person directly and explained the property was blocked - but the person continued their plan to renovate/sell the property anyway.

It will be interesting to learn who was given the penalty and which sanctioned Russian was involved

Have no idea if this is related - Russian oligarch Boris Rotenberg's wife Karina owned property in Atlanta, sanctions were lifted on her earlier this year
www.occrp.org/en/news/us-l...

Thank you, I appreciate that!

In 2023 Luminar CEO Austin Russell tried to buy Forbes - the deal failed but Russian-born Magomed Musaev claimed he was the buyer

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"AlphaTON Capital Submits Strategic Offer to Acquire Majority Stake in Forbes Media Holdings"

Not clear who offer submitted to, or terms of the offer etc.

AlphaTon, led by ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser, is active w/Ton coin and Telegram network

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Hi Brendan, I don't have expertise in the crypto field widely to answer that - I cover a few crypto deals in a niche area involving Trump, Eric and Don Jr. Some of the pieces are here (not all fully about crypto) newstracs.com?s=crypto

Recent 60 Minutes report on Trump’s pardon of Changpeng Zhao, his firm Binance and the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial

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This was a 2021 piece I co-wrote on Jeffrey Epstein - about an unsolved mafia-style murder of an accountant who worked for Les Wexner (founder of The Limited, Victoria's Secret etc) - with details on Jeffrey Epstein's early business deals with Wexner

www.thedailybeast.com/who-murdered...