US Sanctions Office Brings in Money While Being Underfunded

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior Washington correspondent Saleha Mohsin talks for her podcast with the former head of the US office in charge of sanctions . Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

About 200 yards from the White House, there’s a nondescript government building. Inside is a tiny agency that happens to be one of the most powerful in the world. It’s called OFAC, the Office of Foreign Assets Control.