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Leroy N. Soetoro
Oct 10, 2018, 2:31:57 PM10/10/18
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NEW YORK – The owner of a limousine company in the crash that killed 20
people was someone already familiar to law enforcement, but not in the way
you might think.
The company is owned by Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain, according to
federal transportation records. Before the tragedy, authorities knew him
best as a paid government informant in the investigation of domestic
terrorist threats after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hussain's company, Prestige Limousine, said Monday it is investigating
what caused Saturday's crash in Schoharie, New York, and has met with
state and federal authorities. A lawyer for the company wouldn't comment
further.
In 2009, the government credited Hussain with rooting out radical Muslims
in an elaborate sting at a mosque in Newburgh, a city north of New York.
At trial, the jury heard testimony that Hussain was posing as a wealthy
representative of a Pakistani terrorist organization.
He drove a BMW and other luxury vehicles provided by the FBI to maintain
his cover. He also made hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes of the
defendants picking targets for jihad and ranting against Jews. His
cooperation resulted in the conviction of four men in a thwarted plot to
attack synagogues and shoot down military planes.
But Hussain's work also came under attack by defense attorneys and civil
liberties groups as entrapment. They portrayed him as a master manipulator
who entrapped a crew of aimless nobodies while earning $96,000 for his
work.
Even U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said at sentencing that she was
not proud of the government's role in the plot.
"I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime
here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to
fruition," McMahon said. She added, "That does not mean there was no
crime."
According to his own trial testimony, Hussain first entered the U.S. in
Texas with his wife and two sons in the 1990s and went to Albany, where he
received asylum. In April 2003, he was working as a government translator
when he pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge for helping someone get
their driver's license illegally.
He got a sentence that required no more jail time by working as an FBI
informant.
Hussain was a central player in an FBI sting targeting an Albany pizza
shop owner and an imam who were convicted of money laundering and
conspiring to aid a terrorist group. Both defendants said they were
tricked by Hussain during the sting, which involved a business loan using
money from a fictitious missile sale.
More recently, a botched sting involving Hussain in Pittsburgh became the
subject of a documentary called "(T)error." The target described on
Facebook how after meeting the informant he had the "feeling that I had
just played out a part in some Hollywood movie where I had just been
introduced to the leader of a 'terrorist' sleeper cell."
Asked Monday about Hussain, the FBI wouldn't comment.
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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
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NEW YORK – The owner of a limousine company in the crash that killed 20
people was someone already familiar to law enforcement, but not in the way
you might think.
The company is owned by Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain, according to
federal transportation records. Before the tragedy, authorities knew him
best as a paid government informant in the investigation of domestic
terrorist threats after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hussain's company, Prestige Limousine, said Monday it is investigating
what caused Saturday's crash in Schoharie, New York, and has met with
state and federal authorities. A lawyer for the company wouldn't comment
further.
In 2009, the government credited Hussain with rooting out radical Muslims
in an elaborate sting at a mosque in Newburgh, a city north of New York.
At trial, the jury heard testimony that Hussain was posing as a wealthy
representative of a Pakistani terrorist organization.
He drove a BMW and other luxury vehicles provided by the FBI to maintain
his cover. He also made hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes of the
defendants picking targets for jihad and ranting against Jews. His
cooperation resulted in the conviction of four men in a thwarted plot to
attack synagogues and shoot down military planes.
But Hussain's work also came under attack by defense attorneys and civil
liberties groups as entrapment. They portrayed him as a master manipulator
who entrapped a crew of aimless nobodies while earning $96,000 for his
work.
Even U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said at sentencing that she was
not proud of the government's role in the plot.
"I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime
here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to
fruition," McMahon said. She added, "That does not mean there was no
crime."
According to his own trial testimony, Hussain first entered the U.S. in
Texas with his wife and two sons in the 1990s and went to Albany, where he
received asylum. In April 2003, he was working as a government translator
when he pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge for helping someone get
their driver's license illegally.
He got a sentence that required no more jail time by working as an FBI
informant.
Hussain was a central player in an FBI sting targeting an Albany pizza
shop owner and an imam who were convicted of money laundering and
conspiring to aid a terrorist group. Both defendants said they were
tricked by Hussain during the sting, which involved a business loan using
money from a fictitious missile sale.
More recently, a botched sting involving Hussain in Pittsburgh became the
subject of a documentary called "(T)error." The target described on
Facebook how after meeting the informant he had the "feeling that I had
just played out a part in some Hollywood movie where I had just been
introduced to the leader of a 'terrorist' sleeper cell."
Asked Monday about Hussain, the FBI wouldn't comment.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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