A U.S. federal judge extended for a second time the deadline for a plan to distribute a $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement to Holocaust victims. Judge Edward Korman on Tuesday cited Switzerland’s failure to publish the names of dormant account holders and said potential claimants will have to wait longer for payments from the 1998 settlement.
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