Month: September 2009

Iranian-American indicted in massive fraud scheme involving Obama campaign, others

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This is too juicy! I couldn’t pass up posting on it.  My interest in immigrant-perpetrated fraud and the fact that we resettle thousands of Iranian refugees each year drew my attention to this breaking story this morning.  Hat tip:  Blulitespecial.

From Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.

The announcement follows last month’s indictment of Nemazee, head of a private equity firm and an Iranian American Political Action Committee board member, on one count of defrauding Citigroup’s Citibank.

The new indictment adds allegations that he defrauded two other banks, Bank of America and HSBC Bank USA, in a similar fashion by falsifying documents and signatures to purportedly show he had hundreds of millions worth of collateral.

The office of the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan and the FBI said he used the proceeds of his scheme to make donations to election campaigns of federal, state and local candidates, donations to political action committees and charities.

I guess it’s really a stretch for me to be writing about this at RRW because this wikipedia article tells us Hassan Nemazee was actually born in the US.   But, it gives me an opportunity to remind readers that Iran supplies us with thousands and thousands of refugees each year giving influence peddlers like Nemazee lots of potential to grow his Iranian-American political action committee.

From 1983-2005 we resettled 63,979 Iranians—-all to be potentially courted by the Democratic party with the help of Nemazee.  Who knows how many other Iranians come through other immigration programs!

2006: 2,785 

2007:  5,474

2008:  5,257

2009:  4,909 (so far)

Be sure to see some other important articles on Nemazee here, and here.

More links to questionable connections here at Gateway Pundit.

Another refugee murdered in Jacksonville, FL

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I wonder how many murders and other crimes have to be committed against refugees in Jacksonville before the US State Department tells it contractors to stop resettling them there!   Here is the latest, a Sudanese man killed by African Americans. 

This is the whole short story from First Coast News:

JACKSONVILLE, FL — Two people are under arrest in connection with the murder of a man at his Atlantic Boulevard apartment Saturday night.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Merlin Williams Jr. and 23-year-old Ashley Jerrell are charged with murder and armed robbery.

Police say the suspects told them they tried to rob Isaac Siliman at his home in the Lighthouse Bay apartment complex.

Siliman escaped the strife in the African country Sudan and made it to America, where he was waiting for family members to join him from Africa. He came a bit after the Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of young men who escaped Sudan when their families and homes were torn apart by civil war.

Police say the suspects admitted pepper-spraying and beating him on the head with a hammer, then stealing his car, credit card, and other items.

In July we told you about the brutal murder of a Bhutanese refugee in that same city.  This is what I said at the time.

Honestly, what is up with this?  We know that the State Department’s Office of Population, Refugees and Migration was warned in 2005 about crime against refugees in Jacksonville yet apparently continued to approve resettlements there.   I swear it is all about getting cheap housing!  These contractors don’t want to dig too deeply into their own funds to supplement the taxpayer funding they receive, so the refugees suffer.

Will the State Department pay attention now?

New civil rights group to protect former Muslims will launch next week

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Earlier today I told you about a new group making its debut in Washington next week called  Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), and now tonight I received a press release for another group concerned with the threat of Islamic activity in America.  This one, Former Muslims United, has formed to protect the rights of apostates and it too will hold a press conference in Washington next week.

WASHINGTON, DC (September 21, 2009) – Prominent former Muslims– apostates from Islam– will hold a press conference Thursday, September 24 to announce the launch of a new civil liberties organization, Former Muslims United, and the start of a national campaign to educate the American public and policymakers about the threat from authoritative Shariah– Islamic law– to the religious freedom and safety of former Muslims.

At the press conference, Former Muslims United founders Nonie Darwish and Ibn Warraq (both internationally-respected authors and scholars) will release letters calling on the Department of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate possible hate crimes and civil rights violations against apostates from Islam, including the circumstances of the current Florida case of 17-year old Rifqa Bary, a former Muslim. The letters are also signed by Former Muslims United co-founders Mohammad Asghar, Wafa Sultan and Amil Imani.

Darwish and Warraq will release the text of Former Muslim United’s groundbreaking “Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm for Former Muslims,” copies of which will be received in the offices of dozens of Muslim leaders across America by September 25, the 220th anniversary of Congress passing the Bill of Rights. They will also distribute a list of the names of this first group of Muslim leaders to be asked to sign the Muslim Pledge. Additional Muslim leaders will be sent the pledge in the next month as the national campaign gets underway. The names of all pledge recipients will be listed at Formermuslimsunited.org

President Obama, an apostate himself, might want to join this much-needed new group.

Murder trial begins today in Canada; African refugee charged in four murders

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This story is from British Columbia yesterday:

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A man accused of killing his business partner, two of his lovers and his step-daughter will be in court Monday for the start of a trial that could match the marathon proceedings in another serial murder case.

There are expected to be 200 witnesses called during Charles Kembo’s trial and the hearing is expected to last for most of a year.

Kembo is facing four counts of first-degree murder for allegedly killing the three women and his business partner. He was arrested in July 2005 and it’s taken more than four years for the case to come in front of jury.

He is charged with murdering the following:

Kembo is accused of first murdering his wife Margaret Kembo, who vanished sometime between the end of December, 2002 and beginning of January, 2003. 

In November 2003, Kembo’s friend and business partner Ardon Samuel, 38, was also slain.

One year later, the body of Kembo’s 55-year-old girlfriend Sui Yin Ma was found in a slough in Richmond, B.C.

Twenty-one-year-old Rita Yeung, Kembo’s step-daughter, was found dead in July 2005 in Richmond.

We would call Kembo an asylee in the US but apparently in Canada he is considered a “government sponsored convention refugee.”   Just like so many others he was ordered deported but never left.  If the government of Canada had followed through and put him on a plane, perhaps those four would be alive today.

Kembo was known as Charlos Mathews Gwazah when he landed at Pearson International Airport in September 1989 from the landlocked southeast African country of Malawi.

He became a government-sponsored convention refugee, which allows a person to stay in Canada if they have a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, political opinion or nationality.

Refugees selected for resettlement to Canada are financially supported by the government, after often being forced to flee their home country because of extreme hardship.

A Canadian visa officer must decide if the potential sponsored refugee meets the requirements of Canada’s resettlement program.

Immigration and Refugee Board documents showed over the next three years he also made refugee claims under three different names.
 
He was ordered deported in 1994, but as a landed immigrant had a right to appeal the order and did so. He abandoned the appeal in 1996.

Muslim retail group is permitted to discriminate!

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This is a story from way back in April first reported at Creeping Sharia (here) but it just showed up in a post at this website—The National Policy Institute.

ARA [Atlanta Retailers Association] was founded in 1995 by a group of Ismaili Muslims. Its members are mostly immigrants to the U.S. from India and Pakistan and the association’s bylaws specify member companies be majority-owned by a person of the Ismaili Muslim faith. 

ATLANTA — A U.S. District Court Judge here dismissed claims by two independent convenience stores that they were illegally denied membership in the Atlanta Retailers Association (ARA), an incorporated group of nearly 900 Ismaili Muslim convenience store owners based in Georgia.

As reported exclusively by CSNews Online, store owners, Terry Wilson of Wilson’s Grocery, and John Potts of Potts Grocery, filed a complaint two years ago alleging they were denied membership in ARA because they are not Ismaili Muslim and therefore were unable to qualify for discounts on beverages that the group had negotiated for its members with Pepsi Bottling Group.

In a ruling on Monday, Orinda D. Evans, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, decided against the store owners, dismissing their claims of discrimination as well as their motion for a class certification. 

[….]

The case appeared to turn on the definition of Ismaili Muslim as a religion, not a race, and whether a private group could set its own membership criteria. Ismaili is a branch of the Shia sect of Islam.

So does this mean that a group of Christian or Jewish retailers (or any kind of business) could join into groups to negotiate better deals and exclude Muslims? Hmmmm!  Wonder how fast the ACLU would move on that!

I found this story interesting on another level.  We have written on many occasions about the massive food stamp fraud schemes occurring in the convenience store business.  In our county our Pakistani run store was raided and the owner busted here earlier this year.  For more stories on immigrant food stamp fraud and ‘mom and pop’ stores search RRW for ‘food stamp fraud.’   

For more on Ismaili Muslims go here.