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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