Beyonce, Jay-Z's Cuba Trip Highlights Embargo Restrictions

Law360, New York (April 9, 2013, 12:12 PM EDT) -- Add potential sanctions violations to Jay-Z's 99 problems. Following a recent trip to Cuba with his wife, Beyonce, two Republican representatives from Florida are investigating the couple's island travel. Although Paris may have been a more expected destination, the couple decided to leave their "Empire State of mind" to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba. After photos of Shawn Carter and Beyonce Knowles-Carter looking "crazy in love" while strolling the Havana streets hit the U.S. media, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart requested that the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control "check on it" to determine whether the couple received approval for the trip....

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