BIS will send you, if you ask, an email notifying you of updates to the BIS website. Today I received one of the odder of such notices:

In the matter of the denial order of Ihsan Elashi, et. al., the inmate numbers for the following related parties have been corrected: Bayan Elashi, Basman Elashi, and Hazim Elashi.

The Elashi brothers were put on the Denied Parties List after conviction for shipping computer equipment and other goods to Syria and Libya and, it seems, BIS gave them all the same inmate numbers:

The current list gives the three their own, and presumably correct, inmate numbers. BIS probably had little choice other than to spend our tax dollars fixing this error, but, frankly, it could have also saved the money. If you have a proposed exporter with an address at a federal correctional institution, it’s probably a good idea not to go forward with the transaction.

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