San Bernardino terrorist attacker’s relatives let government seize $275,000 life insurance payout

(Corona Press-Enterprise) The mother and sister of San Bernardino terrorist attacker Syed Rizwan Farook have given up their legal fight with the federal government for the proceeds of two life insurance policies that Farook purchased shortly before he and his wife killed 14 people and wounded 22 others at the Inland Regional Center in 2015.

Farook received a $25,000 policy in 2012 as a benefit from his job as an inspector for the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office court filing that sought to seize the proceeds because the government considered the money a fruit of a crime. Then in 2013, Farook purchased a $250,000 policy from the Minnesota Life Insurance Co.

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