BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama federal court sanctioned attorney Terrence Collingsworth for bad-faith conduct in connection with years of lawsuits against an Alabama coal company. He and others have accused the company of complicity in the assassinations of union leaders and the murders of hundreds of Colombians by a paramilitary group, but a federal jury found the attorney and his organization, IRAdvocates, engaged in witness bribery and tampering, obstruction of justice, money laundering, wire fraud and extortion. The lawyer must pay legal fees and costs incurred by the coal company and is barred from practicing in the Northern District of Alabama. He is not found in contempt of court.
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