individuals who were receiving money from Bank of China accounts to facilitate terrorist acts against Israeli targets. In early 2015, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein ordered Bank of China to "turn over some 1,600 documents related to an internal investigation into BOC accounts formerly held in the name of an alleged Islamic Jihad leader, Said al-Shurafa, and his wife Reem." Litigation Daily reported, "Plaintiffs in the six-year-old case hope the documents will buttress their claims that BOC deliberately turned a blind eye to accounts it knew were being used to funnel money to terrorist operatives in Gaza." Judgment against Iran and Syria The family won a case in May 2012 in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against Iran and Syria for their supporting "Palestinian militants" in this suicide bombing attack. The amount of the judgement was for $323,000,000 and represented the first time a U.S. court issued a judgment against Syria for terror related activities. In his opinion issued May 14, 2012, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote, "When a state chooses to use terror as a policy tool—as Iran and Syria continue to do— that state forfeits its sovereign immunity and deserves unadorned condemnation. Barbaric acts like the April 17, 2006 suicide bombing have no place in civilized society and represent a moral depravity that knows no bounds." Separation and settlement of Bank of China terror financing case Based on motions from attorneys representing Bank of China, the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. separated the Wultz lawsuit against Bank of China and transferred it to the U.S. District Court in New York. The case was dismissed with prejudice on December 16, 2015, when the Wultz family and Bank of China reached a settlement. Boies, Schiller, Flexner David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner became lead counsel for the Wultz case against Bank of China, which was overseen through settlement by Lee Wolosky, a former director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council at the White House under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Changing role of Israeli government Although the government of Israel originally provided substantial evidence and encouragement to the Wultz family and their attorneys, starting in May 2013, Israeli officials actively sought to thwart the Wultz case against Bank of China. According to New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, "After Daniel's death, the