


Weinstein and refused to negotiate a reasonable settlement,” Brownlee said. For over a year, the administration has stonewalled Mrs. Weinstein, he promised to compensate his widow. “When President Obama announced that the U.S. The attorney, John Brownlee, had strong words for the administration.
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Then, on Monday afternoon, Elaine, a family attorney, and the public relations firm working with the family, Levick, released a series of statements. Do something,” she said in the interview that aired Sunday. You’re the strongest country in the entire world. policy not to pay terrorists ransoms for prisoners, but the FBI overlooked the payout. She paid al Qaeda $243,000 for her husband’s release over four years, but to no avail.

Then, on Sunday evening, CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired an interview with his wife, Elaine, who said the federal government “did nothing” to rescue her husband. 11 piece in the New York Times magazine, detailing frayed relation between the Weinstein family and the White House over what the family considered poor communication with the FBI. drone strike last year, is on the offensive against the federal government.įirst came a Feb. The family of Warren Weinstein, the American contractor taken prisoner by al Qaeda in 2011 and killed by a U.S.
