Legal Opinion
Abecassis v. Wyatt
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided September 30, 2012No. Civil Action No. H-09-3884PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND OPINION
LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.
This suit arises out of terrorist attacks in Israel between 2000 and 2002. The plaintiffs are Americans injured in the attacks and their relatives. The defendants are companies and individuals involved in the oil and gas business. The plaintiffs allege that these defendants used the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program to purchase oil from Iraq with payments that included illegal kickbacks to a secret bank *884account controlled by Saddam Hussein. The plaintiffs allege that Hussein used funds from this account to provide money and services to…
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