Obama Executive Order Imposes Sanctions on Transnational Organized Crime Groups

On July 25, 2011, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order imposing sanctions against four significant transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). The order gives the U.S. new tools to combat the economic power of transnational organized crime (TOC). They will assist efforts to disrupt, dismantle and defeat the TCOs that pose important threats to U.S. national security, foreign policy or the economy...(more)...