Front Page: The Trump administration pointedly put national security over trade when it told an Illinois District Court judge it “does not take a position” on whether the Court should shield aerospace giant Boeing Corp from a lawsuit filed by victims of Iranian state terrorism.
The family of Shlomo Leibovitch is seeking to collect on a $67 million judgment against Iran for a 2003 terror attack that killed their seven-year old daughter, and sued Boeing to gain access to what it believed were Iranian assets in Boeing’s possession.
Boeing signed a $16 billion deal in 2016 to sell civilian airliners to the state-owned Iran Air, a defendant in numerous lawsuits by victims of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism. In any airplane deal of that size, the purchaser will make advance payments while the aircraft are being produced.
It was those payments the Leibovitch family was seeking to attach and that Boeing was seeking to conceal.
Chief Judge Ruben Castillo ruled on Tuesday that Boeing must produce the contractual documents to the terror victims, to include financial documents relating to advance payments as well as Boeing’s communications with the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control, which licensed the sale during the final weeks of the Obama administration. READ MORE
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
If it weren’t for those pesky deplorables, we would have gotten away with it.
Lie down with dog haters…
Good for them – and I hope they get something out of it. It won’t bring their loved ones back, or erase the damage done to lives and families, but it will strike a blow to anyone wondering if doing business with the Iranian fascist regime at the expense of American lives is worth it.
“U.S. courts have awarded victims of Iranian state terrorism 99 separate judgments worth more than $53 billion, nearly half of which are compensatory damages that can be collected against Iranian assets held outside the United States.” One of these judgments was that to the family of Robert Stethem, a Navy Seabee diver brutally murdered after his plane was hijacked by Hezbollah slime bags. As of now, they have not seen a dime, except perhaps as they watched the planeload of cash disappear on the runway of Mehrabad International.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-04-20/news/0204200066_1_iran-stethem-hezbollah
Good thing I stopped flying 13 years ago.
I HAVEN’T stopped detesting mohammedans, or their sham, terrorist-sponsoring governments, however. 😡
Why do Obola’s friends always lose?🤪
Good!
What about the 1.3 BILLION that Obola sent on pallets to IRAN?
Shouldn’t we take it out of his hide?