Michael D. Turner, (SES)
Partner
1823 Jefferson Place NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-203-0646
Fax: 202-463-4959
Email: mturner@mktechnology.com
1823 Jefferson Place NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-203-0646
Fax: 202-463-4959
Email: mturner@mktechnology.com
Mike Turner is a Partner with MK Technology, focusing on export/import compliance and enforcement matters. He joined MK Technology in 2007, immediately upon his retirement as the Commerce Department's Director of Export Enforcement and a member of the U.S. Government's elite Senior Executive Service. Working closely with MK's widely-experienced team of senior professionals based in its Washington Head Office, in its Boston and West Coast Regions, and in Japan and China, Mike Turner advises clients on a wide range of export-compliance and Customs areas, as well as other elements of international trade regulation.
That advice covers strategic dual-use items regulated by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); munitions items regulated by the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); and economic sanctions as well as other prohibited or restricted international financial transactions regulated by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In the Customs area, he advises on compliance matters and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). He also has extensive experience in the sensitive area of foreign investment in the USA within purview of the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Prior to joining MK Technology, Mike Turner spent over 27 years in export/import compliance and enforcement, rising to senior executive positions in both areas. Prior to his final post as Director of the Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) at the BIS, he had been Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego and Phoenix offices of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Regional Special Agent in Charge with the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles; Director of Strategic Investigations at Customs Service HQ in Washington; and Senior Law Enforcement Adviser to the Under Secretary of Treasury for Law Enforcement.
As a senior career public official, Mike Turner also has extensive experience advising the private sector in trade-controls and Customs compliance. At the BIS he:
Directed compliance and enforcement operations with the DDTC, the OFAC, the National Security and Criminal Divisions at the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the DHS and its Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
Led development at the OEE of new processes for handling voluntary self-disclosures (VSDs) and for issuance of penalties and evaluations of effective compliance programs including Technology Control Plans related to "deemed export" compliance;
Contributed senior-level law enforcement insights into the formulation of BIS export-control policies related to trade with China, India, Iran and Cuba, as well as to enhanced controls related to deemed exports and other intangible technology transfers;
Directed the compliance aspects of BIS review/approval of foreign investment in strategic U.S. industries as a part of the CFIUS;
Directed and conducted trade-education and outreach programs to assist private-sector export managers and practitioners in the design, implementation and management of export-compliance programs; and
Managed and settled civil-penalty enforcement cases as a member of the Administrative Case Review Board (ACRB).
At the ICE he:
Directed immigration and export/import-enforcement activities related to BIS, DDTC, OFAC, DHS and the FBI; and
Led formation of enhanced immigration worksite compliance programs for defense contractors and nuclear power companies.
At Customs he:
Led development of the agency's Trade Enforcement Strategy, and of strategies for enforcement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as Customs' first anti-terrorism strategy; and
Led the functional redesign of informed-compliance, trade-fraud, prior-disclosure and civil-penalty processes.
Mike Turner's expertise covers compliance and enforcement aspects of the Export Administration Act and Export Administration Regulations (EAR); the Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA); money-laundering and anti-terrorism statutes; and trade enforcement and commercial fraud under the Customs Regulations of the United States.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in Social Science/ Criminal Justice from Michigan State University, and he graduated in the inaugural class of Columbia University's Customs Leadership Institute. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Customs Service Academy, where he was commencement speaker and frequent lecturer.
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That advice covers strategic dual-use items regulated by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); munitions items regulated by the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); and economic sanctions as well as other prohibited or restricted international financial transactions regulated by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In the Customs area, he advises on compliance matters and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). He also has extensive experience in the sensitive area of foreign investment in the USA within purview of the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Prior to joining MK Technology, Mike Turner spent over 27 years in export/import compliance and enforcement, rising to senior executive positions in both areas. Prior to his final post as Director of the Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) at the BIS, he had been Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego and Phoenix offices of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Regional Special Agent in Charge with the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles; Director of Strategic Investigations at Customs Service HQ in Washington; and Senior Law Enforcement Adviser to the Under Secretary of Treasury for Law Enforcement.
As a senior career public official, Mike Turner also has extensive experience advising the private sector in trade-controls and Customs compliance. At the BIS he:
Directed compliance and enforcement operations with the DDTC, the OFAC, the National Security and Criminal Divisions at the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the DHS and its Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
Led development at the OEE of new processes for handling voluntary self-disclosures (VSDs) and for issuance of penalties and evaluations of effective compliance programs including Technology Control Plans related to "deemed export" compliance;
Contributed senior-level law enforcement insights into the formulation of BIS export-control policies related to trade with China, India, Iran and Cuba, as well as to enhanced controls related to deemed exports and other intangible technology transfers;
Directed the compliance aspects of BIS review/approval of foreign investment in strategic U.S. industries as a part of the CFIUS;
Directed and conducted trade-education and outreach programs to assist private-sector export managers and practitioners in the design, implementation and management of export-compliance programs; and
Managed and settled civil-penalty enforcement cases as a member of the Administrative Case Review Board (ACRB).
At the ICE he:
Directed immigration and export/import-enforcement activities related to BIS, DDTC, OFAC, DHS and the FBI; and
Led formation of enhanced immigration worksite compliance programs for defense contractors and nuclear power companies.
At Customs he:
Led development of the agency's Trade Enforcement Strategy, and of strategies for enforcement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as Customs' first anti-terrorism strategy; and
Led the functional redesign of informed-compliance, trade-fraud, prior-disclosure and civil-penalty processes.
Mike Turner's expertise covers compliance and enforcement aspects of the Export Administration Act and Export Administration Regulations (EAR); the Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA); money-laundering and anti-terrorism statutes; and trade enforcement and commercial fraud under the Customs Regulations of the United States.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in Social Science/ Criminal Justice from Michigan State University, and he graduated in the inaugural class of Columbia University's Customs Leadership Institute. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Customs Service Academy, where he was commencement speaker and frequent lecturer.
Please return to our main page for more general information concerning our services.