| As Binance and Iran Sued by
Oct 7 Victims in SDNY Now
Plaintiff Cite Unsealed Hamas Case
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 6 – People taken hostage
by Hamas on October 7, 2023
and other victims of that
massacre on January 31 sued
Iran, Syria and Binance and
its founder in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
Binance
founder CZ is facing
sentencing in a case that
Inner City Press is reporting
on as it will on this one.
Here, the
complaint asserts that Binance
"processed numerous
transactions associated with
Hamas, providing a clandestine
financing tool that Binance
deliberately hid from U.S.
regulators." Its DOJ / OFAC
settlement is quoted from.
It is notably
that UNRWA has not been sued,
despite a dozen staffers
actually participating in the
October 7 massacre. The UN is
only not sued due to its
claims of total legal
impunity.
On February 1,
the case was wheeled out /
assigned to District Judge
John G. Koeltl, who also has,
among many others, the case of
the Julian Assange visitors
(to Ecuador's embassy in
London) against the CIA...
On February 2,
Judge Koeltl set an initial
conference... for July 2,
2024. The date was postponed,
as Binance moved to dismiss.
On July 12 the
plaintiff opposed Binance's
motion to dismiss, arguing
that Binance "knew Hamas, PIJ
and the affiliates were
transacting on Binance.
Defendants' internal
communications - epitomized by
jokes and deliberate
indifference - demonstrate
this."
Unlike
Binance, the UN's UNRWA which
has also been sued for
facilitating October 7, and
has since admitted at least
nine staff may have
participated, claims immunity
/ impunity.
On September 6,
the plaintiffs raised to Judge
Koeltl the unsealed case
against Hamas officials:
"LETTER MOTION for Leave to
File Sur-Reply and to provide
the Court with notice of the
DOJ's Unsealed Complaint in
the related matter of United
States of America v. Haniyeh
et al., 24-MAG-438 (S.D.N.Y.)
addressed to Judge John G.
Koeltl from Jake Nachmani on
behalf of Plaintiffs dated
September 6, 2024 ."
More analysis here
(X subscribers) and on
Substack here
This case
is Raanan, et al., v. Binance
Holdings Limited, et al.,
24-cv-697 (Koeltl)
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