A federal judge ruled the phone conversations of the charity with two of its American lawyers were illegally wiretapped. It is the only legal challenge to Bush-era illegal surveillance programs to survive in court because
Yassin Kadi, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, was placed on the U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) list in 2001 and his U.S. assets were frozen. His request for reconsideration was denied by U.S. Treasury and a
In contrast to standards applied to charities, this corporation was allowed to enter into a plea deal and pay a fine after admitting it paid terrorists for protection in Columbia even though they knew the
In 2004, following a raid on its office and a seizure of its assets pending investigation, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF) charity in Oregon was designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). In a challenge to its
Four years after the charity was founded, U.S. Treasury froze KindHeart’s bank accounts and seized all of its records, computers and documents and almost $1 million in assets pending an investigation into whether the charity
In 2001, U.S. government designated the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the largest Muslim charity in the country, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and froze their assets. After its unsuccessful challenge to its designation in
A new attorney for the individual defendants in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) criminal case filed a motion to vacate their sentences in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, on Oct.
In June 2012, the U.S. Solicitor General decided not to file a request for Supreme Court review of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Al-Haramain v. Treasury. The appellate court opinion from September 2011 had upheld a lower court’s ruling that
Yassin A. Kadi, a businessman and citizen of Saudi Arabia, purused court challenges to being placed on terrorist lists in the European Union (EU) and United States (U.S.). The process and standards used by
Author: By Alan R. Kabat, Bernabei & Wachtel, PLLC On December 7, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its long-anticipated decision in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. United States v.
