Cooking oil or crude? Italian restaurant owner was mistaken target of U.S. sanctions

[Judi Lynn]

APRIL 1, 20215:49 PMUPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

By Daphne Psaledakis, Luc Cohen

3 MIN READ


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the final acts of the Trump administration was almost certainly one of the most confounding for Alessandro Bazzoni, a restaurant owner in Verona, Italy.

As part of a crackdown on blacklisted Venezuelan crude, former President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department accidentally slapped sanctions against his company on Jan. 19 in a case of mistaken identity.

“It was a mistake,” Bazzoni said, speaking to Reuters by telephone from his restaurant in Verona on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Treasury reversed course and acknowledged its error, removing sanctions from AMG S.A.S. Di Alessandro Bazzoni & C., as well as sanctions on what appears to be a graphic design company in Porto Torres, Italy.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sanctions-venezuela/cooking-oil-or-crude-italian-restaurant-owner-was-mistaken-target-of-u-s-sanctions-idUSKBN2BO6V8

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Bit of a microcosm of the top-to-bottom incompetence of the Cheetolini Regime (nt)

[tanyev]

2. Good gawd, those effing morons.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. More from the gang who couldn't shoot straight.