International law firm White & Case LLP is representing the government of Sudan in connection with ongoing U.S. litigation issues involving al Qaeda’s 2000 attack on the USS Cole.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act documents filed in November, White & Case will provide legal services to the violence-torn nation “in connection with several litigation matters pending before federal courts.”
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Those litigation matters refer to the terrorist bombing of US Navy guided-missile destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen in October 12, 2000. al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for that attack, which killed 17 US sailors and injured nearly 40 more.
In 2010, injured sailors and victims’ families filed a federal lawsuit against Sudan, claiming that country provided funding, training and support to terrorists in their execution of the bombing.
The US District Court held Sudan liable for the attack, and issued a judgment awarding $315 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The Sudanese government appealed the decision in 2014, but in September 2015, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York denied the appeal and ordered the Sudanese bank to turn over that country’s assets to cover the judgment.
In September of this year, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals refused requests from the U.S. and Sudanese government to reconsider its 2015 ruling.
Washington, D.C.-based White & Case has also inked a pact with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, the national oil and natural gas company owned and financed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. White & Case has hired public affairs powerhouse Podesta Group in the course of that work to counsel the Saudi Arabian Oil Company on U.S. political policy as well as conduct research and communicate with executive branch officials and members of Congress.
White & Case has received an upfront payment of $250,000 from the Republic of Sudan for the work, according to FARA documents.
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