Wednesday, March 17, beginning at 1:00 pm EST | 12:00 pm CST | 11:00 am MST | 10:00 am PST
It’s 3:40 on a Friday. The order is packed and the truck is due at four. A longtime customer has just changed the delivery address to a freight forwarder in another country. Earlier in the week, finance flagged a wire from a company nobody recognized. Now sales wants an answer. Can the warehouse load the order?
Join us for a free one-hour webinar with Jeff Beatrice and Tony Asuncion, former federal prosecutors who handled criminal export control cases at the U.S. Department of Justice and civil export enforcement matters at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Phil Kuhn, a former Commerce special agent who investigated export violations and trained federal agents.
We’ll start with what counts as an export red flag, what “knowledge” means under U.S. export rules, and why “we didn’t know for sure” is no excuse for ignoring warning signs. Then we’ll work through the fictional order as the facts come in, one purchase order, payment record, and email at a time. Red flags are easier to spot in a case file. The trick is spotting them while it’s still just an order.
Along the way, we’ll draw on real enforcement cases to compare what employees saw at the time with what investigators pieced together later. Make the call before the goods are gone.
After the presentation, we’ll open it up for a live Q&A with all three speakers.
What attendees will learn
- Spot warning signs across sales, finance, and shipping and recognize when they call for a closer look.
- Understand what the export rules mean by “knowledge,” what investigators can learn from routine business records, and which questions help resolve a concern.
- Issue a hold that actually stops a shipment, respond if goods have already moved, and document the decision to release, hold, or decline an order.
Who should attend
- Export compliance professionals and in-house counsel who review transactions and advise on whether to proceed.
- Sales, finance, customer service, shipping, and logistics staff who may be the first to spot a warning sign.
- Owners and executives at exporters, manufacturers, distributors, and freight forwarders who oversee compliance or approve transactions.
Speaker bios
Jeffrey Beatrice | Founding Partner, Beatrice & Asuncion
Jeff Beatrice spent more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he prosecuted criminal export control cases and served as Deputy Chief of the National Security Section. At the U.S. Department of Commerce, he served as Acting Chief Counsel for Industry and Security and led the legal team advising on civil export enforcement, including investigations, charging decisions, administrative proceedings, and settlements. He received the Secretary’s Gold Medal Award for his work on an export enforcement action that resulted in a $300 million administrative penalty.
Anthony Asuncion | Founding Partner, Beatrice & Asuncion
Tony Asuncion spent more than 20 years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In the National Security Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he successfully prosecuted criminal export control cases involving diverted aircraft, drone components, military antennas, and missile-related microprocessors. He also served as the office’s Export Control Coordinator and later as Deputy Chief of the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section. At the U.S. Department of Commerce, he led the Policy, Legislation and Regulation Division, overseeing legal work on export control rules and policy and handling civil export enforcement matters.
Philip R. Kuhn | Director of Investigations, Beatrice & Asuncion
Phil Kuhn has investigated export violations and trained the agents who investigate them. A former Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement, he brings more than 25 years of federal investigative and national-security experience. He served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office and as Deputy Director of the Export Enforcement Coordination Center. His career also includes CIA service and more than a decade training federal agents and intelligence analysts on export enforcement and counterintelligence.
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