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Case No. CU-2019-361318-1
Louis M. Hillman-Waller
Zamora Hillman & Villavicencio
3006 Aviation Avenue, #4C
Miami, Florida 33133
Dear Mr. Hillman-Waller:
This responds to your request of May 16, 2019 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and email communication of March 17, 2020, requesting a specific license to engage in transactions involving abandoned funds held by the State of New York Office of the State Comptroller belonging to a deceased Cuban national whose heirs at law are Cuban nationals residing in Cuba. You state that you represent the decedent's mother, Linda Gregoria Castro Hernandez, and that once the funds are received, you would open a Cuban blocked account, obtain the required documents, including the affidavit of eligibility to receive remittances, and begin the process of sending the remittances via Western Union. ...
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1) The applicant is a U.S. lawyer who was selected by the Cuban National heir of a Cuban National decedent to serve as "personal representative" of the decedent's estate (p.3, PDF), where the decedent left his property to the heir through a will (p.7, PDF). The Cuban National heir was resident in Cuba at the time of the OFAC communications (see p. 3, PDF).
Part of the state consists/consisted of funds held by the State of New York Office of the State Comptroller Office of Unclaimed Funds (SCOUF). In 2018, the SCOUF sent a letter to one of the family members of the decedent stating that, with respect to around $6,000 of "abandoned funds" reported in 1971 but held in the name of the decedent, there was a need for "an original [OFAC] license issued to the heirs/estate of [the decedent] authorizing the release of...these frozen assets..."...