By Richard K. Deatley
The Orange County Register
August 10, 2016
SAN BERNARDINO – The $275,000 in life insurance policies taken out by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook naming his mother as beneficiary are subject to government seizure, a federal judge has ruled.
Instead of going to Rafia Farook, the money has been deposited with the court clerk, where it will be held until further orders.
The Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office’s civil asset forfeiture lawsuit said the government wanted to use the insurance money for the surviving victims of the attack and the family members of those who died.
In June, Minnesota Life Insurance alleged in a federal lawsuit that Rafia Farook knew of her son’s attack plans and should not be entitled to the $275,000 in benefits. She was the prime beneficiary for the two policies.
The judge’s order in the forfeiture case did not address the insurance company’s lawsuit claim that Rafia Farook knew of the attack.
She lived in the Redlands apartment with her 28-year-old son, a San Bernardino County health inspector, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, at the time of the Dec. 2 attack at the Inland Regional Center that killed 14 and wounded 22. The couple died in a shootout with law enforcement later the same day.
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