Dozen Indicted for Illegally Wiring Funds to Iraq
A federal grand jury charged a Seattle money wiring business and 12 individuals with conspiring to launder and move at least 12 million in money and goods to Iraq in violation of the embargo. Six in the United States were arrested, with operations spanning New York Seattle and several foreign locations. Assets in four U.S. bank accounts were frozen as investigators probe possible connections to terrorism or weapons procurement.
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Washington
Iraq
U.S
U.S. Customs Service
Robert Bonner
Washington State
Bonner
United States
Hussain Alshafei
Seattle
Alshafei Family Connect Inc
Nashville
Tenn
St. Louis
Roanoke
Dallas
Phoenix
Alshafei
Customs
Bush
New York
Britain
India
Canada
Brazil
Taiwan
Egypt
Jordan
United Arab Emirates
Al-Nour Trading
Fakher
Abu Haider
Great Britain
Jimmy Gurule
Treasury Department
Freese
Detroit
Central Park jogger rape convictions tossed out
A New York judge dismissed the convictions of five men jailed for the 1989 Central Park jogger assault after DNA tests tied the crime to Matias Reyes and new forensic analysis found no link to the five. Prosecutors said they had no plans to retry.
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Central Park
New York
Charles Tejada
Bill Perkins
Central Park Five
Ali
Sharonne Salaam
Yusef Salaam
Perkins
Michael Warren
Matias Reyes
Robert Morgenthau
Police Detectives’ Union
Tejada
Connecticut
Raymond Santana
Antron McCray
Kevin Richardson
Kharey Wise
Salaam
Reyes
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