ExxonMobil sues Trump administration over Russia sanctions fine

ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit challenging a Treasury Department finding that the company violated international sanctions imposed on Russia in 2014.

The oil company, which now-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson led at the time of the offending incident, accused the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of making an “arbitrary, capricious” finding of fault. Exxon argued that the details it struck with state-run Russian government company Rosneft were permissible even though the chairman of that company was on an international blacklist.