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  • Case against Cuba won, but family's quest goes on

    04/19/2003 2:01:53 PM PDT · by Luis Gonzalez · 5 replies · 173+ views
    The Houston Chronicle ^ | April 19, 2003 | JENALIA MORENO
    Forty-two years after a Cuban firing squad executed an American businessman, his family won a $67 million judgment against the Cuban government. But the struggle for the widow and four children of Howard Anderson now turns to the United States and whether the Treasury Department will release money seized decades ago from the island nation to cover the judgment. A circuit judge in Miami, Ellen Leesfield, ruled late Thursday that Anderson's children and his widow, Dorothy Anderson McCarthy of Pompano Beach, Fla., qualify for the compensation under a law that allows Americans to sue foreign countries for acts of terrorism....