(C) ELECTION
TO
PARTICIPATE
IN
THE 
FUND.—Upon written notice to the Attorney 
General, the Special Master, and the chief 
judge of the United States District Court for 
the Southern District of New York within 60 
days of the date of enactment of this Act, a 
United States person, who is a plaintiff in the 
proceedings captioned Petersen v. Islamic Re-
public of Iran, No. 10 Civ. 4518 (S.D.N.Y.), or 
a Settling Judgment Creditor as identified in 
the proceedings captioned In Re 650 Fifth Ave-
nue & Related Properties, No. 08 Civ. 10934 
(S.D.N.Y. filed Dec. 17, 2008), shall have the 
right to elect to participate in the Fund and, to 
the extent any such person exercises such right, 
shall irrevocably assign to the Fund all rights, 
title, and interest to such person’s claims to the 
assets at issues in such proceedings. To the ex-
tent that a United States person is both a 
plaintiff in the proceedings captioned Petersen 
v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 10 Civ. 4518 
(SDNY) and a Settling Judgment Creditor in 
In Re 650 Fifth Avenue & Related Properties, 
No. 08 Civ. 10934 (S.D.N.Y. filed Dec. 17, 
2008), any election by such person to partici-
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pate in the Fund pursuant to this paragraph 
shall operate as an election to assign any and 
all rights, title, and interest in the assets in 
both actions for the purposes of participating in 
the Fund. The Attorney General is authorized 
to pursue any such assigned rights, title, and 
interest in those claims for the benefit of the 
Fund. 
(D) APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL PAY-
MENT.—A United States person who is a plain-
tiff in the proceedings identified in subpara-
graph (C) and who does not elect to participate 
in the Fund may, notwithstanding such failure 
to elect, submit an application for conditional 
payment from the Fund, subject to the fol-
lowing limitations: 
(i) Notwithstanding any such claim-
ant’s eligibility for payment and the initial 
deadline for initial payments set forth in 
section 204(b), the Special Master shall al-
locate but withhold payment to an eligible 
claimant who applies for a conditional pay-
ment under this paragraph until such time 
as an adverse final judgment is entered in 
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both of the proceedings identified in sub-
paragraph (C). 
(ii) In the event that a final judgment 
is entered in favor of the plaintiffs in the 
proceedings identified in subparagraph (C), 
the payments allocated to claimants who 
applied for a conditional payment under 
this subparagraph shall be considered void, 
and any funds previously allocated to such 
conditional payments shall be made avail-
able and distributed to all other eligible 
claimants pursuant to section 204. 
(c) EXPENDITURES FROM FUND.—Amounts in the 
Fund shall be available, without further appropriation, for 
the payment of eligible claims and compensation of the 
Special Master in accordance with this title. 
(d) MANAGEMENT OF FUND.—The Fund shall be 
managed and invested in the same manner as a trust fund 
is managed and invested under section 9602 of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986. 
SEC. 206. AWARD OF COMPENSATION TO INFORMERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any United States person who 
holds a final judgment described in section 203(b)(1) and 
who meets the requirements set forth in subsection (b) of 
this section is entitled to receive an award of 10 percent 
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of the funds deposited in the Fund attributable to infor-
mation such person furnished to the Attorney General that 
leads to a forfeiture described in section 203(a)(1), which 
is made after the date of enactment of this Act pursuant 
to a proceeding resulting in forfeiture that was initiated 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) PERSON DESCRIBED.—A person meets the re-
quirements of this subsection if— 
(1) the person identifies and notifies the Attor-
ney General of funds or property— 
(A) of a state sponsor of terrorism, or held 
by a third party on behalf of or subject to the 
control of that state sponsor of terrorism; 
(B) that were not previously identified or 
known by the United States Government; and 
(C) that are subsequently forfeited directly 
or in the form of substitute assets to the United 
States; and 
(2) the Attorney General finds that the identi-
fication and notification under paragraph (1) by 
that person substantially contributed to the for-
feiture to the United States. 
SEC. 207. SPECIAL EXCLUSION FROM COMPENSATION. 
In no event shall an individual who is criminally cul-
pable for an act of international terrorism receive any 
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compensation under this title, either directly or on behalf 
of a victim. 
SEC. 208. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Within 30 days after authorizing the payment of 
compensation of eligible claims pursuant to section 204, 
the Special Master shall submit to the chairman and rank-
ing minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the House of Representatives and the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judici-
ary of the Senate a report on the payment of eligible 
claims, which shall include— 
(1) an explanation of the procedures for filing 
and processing of applications for compensation; and 
(2) an analysis of the payments made to United 
States persons from the Fund and the amount of 
outstanding eligible claims, including— 
(A) the number of applications for com-
pensation submitted; 
(B) the number of applications approved 
and the amount of each award; 
(C) the number of applications denied and 
the reasons for the denial; 
(D) the number of applications for com-
pensation that are pending for which compen-
satory damages have not been paid in full; and 
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(E) the total amount of compensatory 
damages from eligible claims that have been 
paid and that remain unpaid. 
SEC. 209. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title the following definitions apply: 
(1) ACT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.—The 
term ‘‘act of international terrorism’’ includes— 
(A) an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, 
aircraft sabotage, or hostage taking as those 
terms are defined by section 1605A(h) of title 
28, United States Code; and 
(B) as defined by section 2339A of title 
18, United States Code, the provision of mate-
rial support or resources for an act described in 
subparagraph (A). 
(2) ADVERSE
FINAL
JUDGMENT.—The term 
‘‘adverse final judgment’’ means a final judgment in 
favor of the defendant, or defendants, in the pro-
ceedings identified in section 205(b)(3)(C), or which 
does not order any payment from, or award any in-
terest in, the assets at issue in such proceedings to 
the plaintiffs or Settling Judgment Creditors in such 
proceedings. 
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