Foreign Attack Victims Demand Proceeds of Tobacco Sanctions Fine

American victims of terror attacks and other violence abroad are frustrated the Justice Department hasn’t committed to directing the proceeds of a $629 million settlement to a fund designed to compensate them for their suffering.

How DOJ’s record-high North Korean sanctions penalty against British American Tobacco Plc gets divvied up is being closely watched by many of the 15,000 eligible claimants, including victims of the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, a 1968 North Korean capture of a US spy ship, and 9/11. Their lawyers say the law demands all the settlement proceeds be paid to survivors or families of those ...