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Military families demand DOJ distribute nearly $800M from French cement company found guilty of bribing ISIS

Nypost · · 1253 words · By Fox News
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19 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“In November 2017, Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was injured in Raqqa, Syria while clearing the second floor of a hospital that ISIS had booby trapped with explosives.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was injured by ISIS booby traps in a Raqqa, Syria hospital in November 2017.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New Year Honours 1955, were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Lenny Skutniks" is a generic term for notable people who are invited to sit in the gallery at a State of the Union address or other joint meeting of the United States Congress. Lenny Skutnik was the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales an…
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“Stacy, his wife Lindsey, and their 4 children are part of a lawsuit brought by military families against the French cement company, Lafarge”
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No specific evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm that Kenton Stacy and his family are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, although other military families are mentioned.
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“Lafarge, recently found guilty by a French Court of paying millions of dollars in bribes to ISIS to keep their factory open in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm that Lafarge was found guilty by a French court of paying bribes/funding ISIS to keep its Syrian factory open.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de L…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_(company)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lafarge scandal refers to the court case against Lafarge, a French cement company, for making payments to the armed militant groups Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Nusra Front between 2013…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
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“President Trump praised Stacy’s service to the nation in his 2018 State of the Union Address to Congress.”
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Web search results explicitly state that President Trump mentioned Kenton Stacy and the heroism of Justin Peck during his 2018 State of the Union Address.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 United States Senate election in Oklahoma was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oklahoma. Incumbent senator James Lankford won …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Lenny Skutniks" is a generic term for notable people who are invited to sit in the gallery at a State of the Union address or other joint meeting of the United States Congress. Lenny Skutnik was the …
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“Army Staff Sergeant Justin Peck bounded into a booby-trapped building to rescue Kenton and then gave him more than 2 hours of CPR”
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Multiple sources, including a YouTube title and news reports, confirm that SSG Justin Peck rescued Kenton Stacy and performed CPR.
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 hours ago ... In November 2017, Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was injured in Raqqa, Syria while clearing the second floor of a hospital that ISIS had ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/military-families-dem…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 30, 2018 ... Staff Sergeant Justin Peck has served in the United States Army for eight years. In November 2017, he was part of a team, along with Chief ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmGiQJ95Fc
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 24, 2019 ... Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was finally coming home to her and their four children, nearly two years after he deployed to Syria.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/23/two-years-lat…
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“In a landmark ruling in April, a French court convicted Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, of providing material support to a terror group and sentenced its former CEO to 6 years in prison.”
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Multiple news sources confirm the French court convicted Lafarge of financing terrorists and sentenced the former CEO (Bruno Lafont) to six years in prison.
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“Eight former Lafarge employees were found guilty.”
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Cross-referenced and corroborated by multiple sources (Al Jazeera and Reuters) stating eight former employees were found guilty.
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web search NEUTRAL — Eight former Lafarge employees were found guilty of financing “terrorist” organisations, including former CEO Bruno Lafont, who was sentenced to six years in jail. His lawyer has said that he plans to…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/french-court-rules-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Eight former Lafarge employees were found guilty, including former CEO Bruno Lafont, who was sentenced to six years in jail. His lawyer told Reuters he would appeal.
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/trade/french-cement-maker…
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web search NEUTRAL — Eight former Lafarge employees were convicted alongside the company.In 2022, Lafarge pleaded guilty to providing material support to designated terrorist organizations in the United States and agreed …
https://www.sofx.com/paris-court-convicts-lafarge-of-is-fina…
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“Nearly 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them military families, are part of earlier litigation in the Eastern District of New York.”
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Web search results explicitly state that nearly 1,000 plaintiffs, mostly military families, are part of litigation in the Eastern District of New York.
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web search NEUTRAL — The long read: The French cement giant started operating in Syria just before the civil war erupted. When Islamic State took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep tradin…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/french-cement-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nearly 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them military families, are part of earlier litigation in the Eastern District of New York. “They were killed in Syria by a gruesome terrorist organization that was fu…
https://dailyillinois.com/119000/military-families-demand-do…
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web search NEUTRAL — The plaintiffs also include the family of Navy Senior Petty Officer Scott Cooper Dayton, who was killed in Ayn Issa, Syria, on 24 November 2016, as well as the family of former Marine David Berry, who…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-families-sue-french-ce…
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“Lafarge pled guilty to doing that in 2022.”
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While the specific 'evidence for claim 8' section was empty, the evidence provided for claim 6 explicitly states: 'In 2022, Lafarge pleaded guilty to providing material support to designated terrorist organizations in the United States'.
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“Toral, who is also a US Marine, is seeking compensation for those families from the $777 million Lafarge paid to the Justice Department as part of the settlement.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding an attorney named Toral or his specific efforts to seek compensation from the $777 million settlement.
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“The DOJ has had that money since Oct 2022.”
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“In order to operate in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria, Lafarge paid more than $6.5 million to ISIS from 2013–2014 through its Syrian subsidiary to keep production facilities running.”
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“The cement produced at its factory in Jalabiya, a factory which was bought for $680 million months before the Syrian uprising began in 2011, was also used for tunnels and bunkers”
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“The lawsuit is significant because it marks the first time a company has faced U.S. charges for supporting a terrorist group.”
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“In October 2022, Lafarge settled with the DOJ before the French ruling, paying more than $777 million into an asset forfeiture fund”
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“Hailey Dayton, whose father was the first American killed by ISIS in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2016.”
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“The Biden Justice Department denied requests to distribute the Lafarge funds while the case was still pending before a French Court.”
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“In February, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., pressed then-Attorney General Pam Bondi on when the DOJ planned to release the funds to the families.”
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“the decision to release the funds rests with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.”
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