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Sotloff's parents told they could be prosecuted for paying ransom to IS
• ReutersThe parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family told Yahoo