Bank that funded terrorism must pay back victims
Terrorism
by Rachel Lynn Aldrich
Posted 9/23/14, 04:54 pm
In a landmark decision, a jury reached a unanimous verdict Monday after two days of deliberation that the large, Jordan-based Arab Bank should be held responsible for Hamas-sanctioned suicide bombings in the early 2000s that killed and wounded several Americans. The trial, held in a federal court in Brooklyn, was the first time a jury found a bank liable for knowingly supporting a terrorist organization, said the plaintiffs’ lawyer Gary Osen.