U.S. Pressed to Explain Why Judge Can't Reject Fokker Accord
- Dutch firm agreed to pay $21 million for Iran sanctions crimes
- D.C. judge said last year that U.S. went too easy on company
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Three federal appeals judges pressed lawyers for the U.S. and a Dutch aerospace company to explain why a lower-court judge shouldn’t have rejected their resolution of a criminal trade-sanctions case as too lenient.
Attorneys for the government and a unit of Fokker Technologies Holding BV appeared before the appellate panel in Washington Friday seeking to revive the $21 million settlement. The deal was meant to resolve allegations that Fokker shipped aircraft parts to Iran, Sudan and Burma in violation of U.S. law.