BIS Denies Export Privileges of Two Men for Attempted Illegal Exports

The Bureau of Industry and Security denied the export privileges of two men, and added both to the Denied Persons List, after they were convicted for two unconnected illegal export schemes. Jerome Stuart Pendzich of Tennessee, currently serving a 46-month sentence for the attempted export of level IV ballistics small arms protective inserts to Colombia without the required State Department authorization, will have his export privileges denied for the 10 years ending Oct. 12, 2021. BIS also denied the export privileges of James Allen Larrison of Pennsylvania, sentenced to 24 months of probation for attempting to export two Hitachi junction units to Iran without the required Office of Foreign Assets Control authorization, for the five years ending June 23, 2016.