They include individuals sanctioned for: amphetamine addiction coupled with a Medicaid-fraud conviction; conducting an "excessive number of invasive procedures"; smuggling steroids from Mexico; engaging in conversations regarding a "murder for hire" and neglecting to report the rape of a pediatric patient; "digitally penetrating" patients and having sexual intercourse with them in the office.
And it should call for targeted individual sanctions on those orchestrating the abuses.
"I don't think South Sudan has a better friend than the United States," Kerry responded, adding that if the nation's leaders continue to fail on delivering its commitments in the peace agreement, "the international community is absolutely prepared" for individual sanctions.
This must be built on an understanding of the importance of the market economy and of individual rewards and sanctions for individual behavior.
-- The U.S. hit Chinese and Russian companies — and individuals — with sanctions for doing business with North Korea as part of a broader effort to isolate the hostile regime.
"Similarly, the European Union ordered the freezing of funds belonging to several named Iranian and Belarusian officials for their role in human rights violations: individual judges were sanctioned for issuing disproportionate sentences following unfair trials that violated the basic rights of the accused, as were the prosecutors and government officials involved in such proceedings," they said.
While the Justice Department has brought charges against individuals for sanctions violations, it would be "unusual for it to be a high-ranking executive at a large company," said Kelly T. Currie, a former prosecutor in Brooklyn, where Meng's case is being handled.
And should one individual's innocent mistake result in a sanction for an entire team?
And it represents the case of a group of scholars in one country mounting a moral high horse from which they are targeting foreign academic institutions (and thus individuals) for sanction, an act that runs counter to the basic tenets of open discourse, academic freedom, and respect for different perspectives and viewpoints.
Lawyers must apply to the Treasury before acting for a sanctioned individual, and before de-sanctioning, clients need to declare that they have never benefited from people like Vladimir Putin.
Assessments that provide rewards or sanctions for individual children or teachers.
