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25 Nov, 2008 6:35 am
... charity for funneling donations to the terrorist group Hamas. Last October, a mistrial on most charges occurred in the trial of leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief
and Development. (See prior posting.) But on this retrial, the jury found the defendants guilty on 108 counts of supporting terrorism,
money laundering and tax fraud. Defendants plan an appeal. Before the U.S. closed it down in 2001, the Holy Land Foundation was the largest ...
29 Dec, 2007 11:26 am
In Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, (7th Cir., Dec. 28, 2007), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower
court's award of $156 million in damages against four defendants, including the Holy Land
Foundation (a ... a statute that permits recovery of treble damages by victims of international terrorism. The suit was filed by the parents
and estate of David Boim who was murdered on the West Bank outside of Jerusalem by gunmen apparently connected with Hamas ...
28 May 12:15 am
... Department press release yesterday announced that a Dallas federal district judge has sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of the Muslim charity's leaders who had been found guilty by a ... of the convicted defendants were each sentenced to 65 years in
prison. The others were sentenced to 15 and 20 years. The court also reaffirmed the jury's prior verdict that the Foundation and
the 5 guilty defendants were liable to forfeit the $12.4 million they had funneled to ...
18 Sep, 2007 9:31 am
... ] Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys are scheduled to make closing arguments Monday in the trial of Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its leaders, all of which are being held on charges of aiding terrorists, conspiracy and money ... Land's chief executive, assessed whether leaders of the Palestinian charities were friend or foe. But the letter, and much of the other evidence in the
case, is dated to the early 1990s or before.[6] A key witness was an Israeli official ...
25 Oct, 2007 1:25 pm
... States District Court for the Northern District of Texas when a mistrial was declared in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a controversial case involving a Muslim charity charged with funneling millions of dollars to HAMAS ... . After further deliberation, eleven of
the twelve jurors believed that they could not reach a unanimous decision and a mistrial was declared. It is unknown how the confusion surrounding the verdicts arose, but the
Judge noted that the information given ...
24 Nov, 2008 4:52 pm
... has yet to come. On Monday, jurors will begin an eighth day of deliberations in the retrial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the nation's largest Muslim charity and a ... agents storming inside like "something out of a movie" after President Bush froze the
foundation's assets. "I don't think we've been able to go to ... in last year's original trial - which attracted wider media coverage
and larger courtroom audience - lasted 19 days before jurors deadlocked on most counts ...
21 Sep, 2007 6:45 pm
Linda Moreno, defense lawyer for the Holy Land Foundation
for Relief and Development, rested their case by asking the federal jury to look beyond what
she described as "fear-mongering and politically motivated charges against a Muslim charity." Much of closing arguments was spent trying to discredit the other side's expert
witness testimony. Nathan F. Garrett, a federal prosecutor, told the court " ...
21 Oct, 2007 8:22 am
... Federal District Judge A. Joe Fish, who presided over the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development case, was out of town,
and the magistrate who took the jury's verdict said ... appeared at a Rose Garden news conference to announce that its assets had been seized and said, ''[t]he net is
closing'' on those who finance terrorists.[5] The government is ... his terrorism crimes blog. These posts can be found here, here and here. [1] David Koenig, Verdict to be read
Monday in trial of Muslim charity, ...
1 Oct, 2008 8:01 am
... rely on the websites to show group's nexus to terrorism unless the websites were properly authenticated, in Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, 511 F.3d 707, 753 (7th Cir. 2007) As part of a continuing series on Internet evidence, another case, Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief
and Development, highlights that information posted on the Internet is inadmissible unless it is properly authenticated. read more »
30 Dec, 2008 12:08 am
In action to recover damages based on international terrorism, while noting concerns that a terrorism and counterterrorism expert relied on web postings to show that organization
was responsible for the murder, en banc majority concludes that FRE 703 permitted the expert to rely on this unauthenticated, hearsay evidence, in Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief
and Development, __ F.3d __ (7th Cir. Dec. 3, 2008) (en banc) (Nos. 05-1815, 05-1816, 05-1821 & 05-1822) read more »
27 Jul, 2004 5:43 am
AP is reporting that a 42-count federal indictment charges a Muslim charity and seven men with conspiracy and dealing with terrorists. UPDATE: The indictment charges the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Muslim charity in the US, with conspiracy, providing support to a foreign
terrorist organization, conspiracy to deal in the property of a terrorist, dealing in the
7 Aug, 2007 6:30 am
... a disruption aimed at derailing a Middle East peace accord.[1] The FBI asserted that the charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, was motivated by the fear that the accord would prevent the elimination of Israel.[2] The group allegedly met to ... as ''Samah,'' or Hamas
spelled backwards.[5] The Philadelphia meeting was highlighted in the 2004 indictment against the leaders of Holy Land, which was the nation's largest Muslim charity until federal agents shut it down in December ...
25 Nov, 2008 6:20 pm
... Palestinian militant group Hamas through a Richardson, Texas-based Muslim charity, the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development. The verdict
came after eight days of deliberations ... five defendants were indicted in 2004 but a previous trial ended in a mistrial and hung jury in October 2007. John Cline, a San
Francisco-based Jones ... U.S. until it was shut down in December 2001 when the Treasury Department seized the foundation's assets. (Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld originally served ...
26 Feb, 2007 9:03 am
... was linked to terrorists and insisted that a number of accusations were fabricated by the government. Now, attorneys for the Holy
Land Foundation for Relief and Development say the government's own documents provide evidence of that claim. In recent ... surveillance recordings, so that full transcripts would replace
government summaries as evidence. The case involves: Seven former foundation officials, six of them U.S. citizens, have been charged with
funneling money to overseas charities controlled ...
25 Nov, 2008 12:07 pm
... five members, in Dallas, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. The first trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the largest Muslim
charity in the U.S., ended in a mess. The federal trial in Dallas last year lasted nearly two months and jury deliberation took 19 days, only to have the jury deadlock on many
counts ... a Dallas jury convicted Monday on all 108 counts brought against the charity and five of its former leaders. Here's the AP story. It was a huge victory for the
government's ...
26 Nov, 2008 4:39 pm
... after failing to prove its case? Largely by simplifying a complex case of terrorism financing, and by making the most of a do-over, attorneys on both sides said. "In our
judgment, ... good evidence. This year, we refined the case somewhat." The convictions of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development played out like a blowout government victory Monday. ... Land itself was convicted of all 32 counts.
U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis ordered the five men into federal custody Monday while they ...
6 Dec, 2008 6:10 pm
In Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, (7 Cir., Dec. 3, 2008), in a 7-3 en banc decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
held the American Muslim Society and the ... to the nonviolent wing of an organization that he knows to engage in terrorism is knowingly contributing to the organization's
terrorist activities. And that is the only knowledge that can reasonably be required as a premise for liability. To require proof that the donor intended that his contribution be
used for ...
17 Sep, 2007 7:34 pm
[JURIST] Closing arguments began Monday in the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development [ADL backgrounder], a Muslim
foundation charged with financing international terrorism by supporting the Palestinian group Hamas [BBC backgrounder]. Once the largest Muslim
charity in the United States, federal prosecutors shut down the Holy Land Foundation in 2001 and subsequently
29 Dec, 2008 5:36 am
... Charged in Price Fixing Scheme Daniel Laikin, CEO of National Lampoon, Inc., and seven other individuals were charged with manipulating the prices of publicly traded
companies ... 11/28/08 Dallas: Holy Land Foundation
and Leaders Convicted The Holy Land Foundation of
Relief and Development and five of its leaders were found ... coordinated law
enforcement initiative, sixty-two defendants associated with the Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families were charged with crimes spanning more than ...
15 Sep, 2008 1:02 pm
"High-Stakes Trial Is Set Against Alleged Hamas Arm": Today in The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, "Prosecutors are set today to take a second run at convicting
officers of a Texas-based charity that the government contends was a Hamas beachhead in America, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development." And The Dallas Morning News reports today that "Holy Land prosecution begins again."
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