A federal judge has ordered Sprint Nextel to pay more than $610,000 it owes to an Iranian state telecom agency directly to the families of victims of a 1996 terrorist attack. The judge ordered the payment under a 2008 statute that allows victims to seize money headed to a country or state-owned agency that owes a terrorism-related judgment.
August 11, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday ordered (PDF) Sprint Nextel Corp. to pay more than $610,000 it owes to an Iranian state telecommunications agency directly to the families of victims of a 1996 terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia.
The families, plaintiffs in a civil action against Iran for its alleged involvement in the attack, have been trying unsuccessfully since 2006 to collect a more than $591 million default judgment.
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