'Never before has a corporation been charged with providing material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.'
A French cement company agreed to pay roughly $778 million in financial penalties after pleading guilty in U.S. federal court on Tuesday to paying off terrorist groups in Syria to keep a plant there operational.
The penalty is the largest settlement paid by a private company for providing support to a terrorist organization, the
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