A federal judge has held Iran responsible for the kidnapping of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, entering a default judgement against the regime on the 13th anniversary of his disappearance.
The decision from US District Judge Timothy Kelly on Monday was a milestone moment in the family's lawsuit against Tehran, which featured wrenching testimony in Washington's federal court from each of Levinson's seven children.
It is really important to the family that people realize what their father, their husband, has been through and what they've been through," said David McGee, a lawyer for the family. It is a terrible ordeal."
He has been unable to see his children grow up, enjoy professional success, marry, and become parents themselves as they have many times over," Kelly wrote in his judgment. But they have not forgotten him, not by a long shot."
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