Was the money he collected from this scam going to Palestinian Islamic Jihad? "Grocer pleads guilty in food-stamp fraud," from the Chicago Tribune, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
CHICAGO -- A 33-year-old man facing charges in Florida of funding the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to illegally exchanging cash for food stamps at his West Side grocery store.Hatem Fariz, of Spring Hill, Fla., admitted that from May 1999 to December 2000 he fraudulently redeemed more than $1.6 million from the Link program.
Fariz would let customers swipe their food-stamp cards for specific amounts of money and then pay them back a lesser amount in cash. He would then collect the difference.
Fariz, who formerly led a Chicago mosque, moved to Florida, where he was arrested for funding Islamic Jihad. At trial last year, a jury acquitted him of several terror-related charges but didn't reach a verdict on eight counts. He is free on $1.1 million bail.
For admitting fraud and money laundering in Chicago, he faces up to 3 years, 5 months in prison.
Since 2001 all kinds of rocks have been lifted. The Arab and Muslim cigarette-smugglers, starting with those in North Carolina. The Middle Eastern "cash-only" gas station operators and small grocery owners, those who have benefitted from being allowed to sell state lottery tickets, and whose declared incomes to the IRS and the state tax office, are nothing like the real figures. Where does the money go? And while fraud is not exactly unknown in all sorts of immigrant communities, one wonders if all the examples uncovered as a result of investigations prompted not by tax authorities but rather becuase of fears of terrorism, do not reflect some larger belief that there is no real need to play by Infidel laws, or Infidel rules --that they are simply made to be broken, in the interests of Islam (or in the interests of individual Muslims, which somehow becomes identified, in the minds of those Muslims, with promoting Islam).
Think of Al Capone, finally laid low not because of his extortion racket (he made offers they couldn't refuse, offers to treat as "protected peoples" those who paid him off -- sound familiar as an operating system?). The same can be done in this country, laying low those who would, if they could, lay non-Muslims and their laws and institutuions just as low as possible.
What beats me is how this guy managed to get the bail of a million dollars.
@arjun.sevak
..its the lawyers, this dude probably got an uncle who got a sister in law whose brother got a friend who is a lawyer...
He probably got away with it for so long because hardly anyone would go to a hallal (sp?) grocery store but fellow muslims. Everyone was in on the scam--he was just the facilitator.
As for bail I think the rule is that one only has to hand over ten percent of the amount decreed by the court to a willing bondsman. I'll bet there are lots of Muslim bail bondsmen. I'm sure his community just passed the hat.
OT-- My mosque watch got rained out. You guys are right about my openly studying the congregation, as opposed to hiding in the tall grass. (snicker)
The only thing of interest I saw was the imam reporting for duty. He's a humble, pious Muslim, so he walks--until someone gives him a ride. He was carrying a stick. They really are terrified of dogs (Muslims, that is, not sticks). Mine barked at him, from inside the living room, and I thought Imam Holier-Than-Thou was going to soil himself.
My dog is just a Spaniel-mutt mix, but he has a fairly deep bark. I think it's time to go to the local animal shelter and adopt a big dog.
It would be fun to park a harmless but huge dog in the front yard! Lord, I have a mean streak!
Abscedere,
Since we are both in the same business, here is something that I observed, rather, heard. The calling of prayer is not uniform. On some days, the muezzin wails twice, or even thrice, on other days, he is content with a single call. What is this, some sort of code ? Also, on Fridays, the number of goats and sheep being taken to the mosques for sawing off trebels. They kill a lot of animals on Friday.
Hugh
And while fraud is not exactly unknown in all sorts of immigrant communities....
Fraud, automobile insurance fraud, income tax fraud, tax evasion, tax underreporting, cash-businesses. All our recent immigrant groups gravitate toward them. They exchange notes on how to beat the IRS and the other authorities.
Are Muslims the most vile participants in this great game. Absolutely! The blow their untaxed wealth on white mistresses and secondarily on Jihad as their conscience pulls them to contribute to their gun toting brothers
What is this, some sort of code ? Also, on Fridays, the number of goats and sheep being taken to the mosques for sawing off trebels. They kill a lot of animals on Friday.
Sound like paganism animal sacrifice. They propitiate the phony allah to get benefit A B or C
arjun.sevak
You are a treasure of interesting and unusual facts and details. Keep them coming.
Thanks.
@arjun.sevak
..its the lawyers, this dude probably got an uncle who got a sister in law whose brother got a friend who is a lawyer...
Posted by: cosmicAvenger at June 17, 2006 09:01 AM
.... which is another angle of Jihad .. Legal Jihad. Notice the lawyers of Muslim terror-supporters are also Muslims. That way, Muslim lawyers has his 'Muslim Brothers' legally covered. Infidel fool does not even know that infidel tax-dollars support legal-jihad in the foolish infidel legal system, subjugate the same Infidel. Can it get any easier?
Also, on Fridays, the number of goats and sheep being taken to the mosques for sawing off trebels. They kill a lot of animals on Friday.
Posted by: arjun.sevak at June 17, 2006 10:59 AM
I would bet that health codes are being violated. What is done with the blood? Is it washed down the sewers? What about the guts and other waste? Slaughter houses are rather tightly regulated. Perhaps a call to the local health department is in order.
Arjun.sevak: I agree with Norseman. Please contact your local Health Dept. Those vile people should not be able to cruelly slaughter animals whenever and wherever they feel like doing so. It's another example of them flaunting all rules. I knew of a Muslim medical doctor, arrogant, beating and cheating on his wife, and, of course, an upstanding member of the local Muslim community, who was convicted of Medicare fraud. What he didn't get caught on was sending some of the money to Hamas. He had also stolen cash from the local mosque, through playing fast and loose with its bookkeeping, enough money to buy himself a van on the mosque's bank account. Of course, I am sure that he probably was doing good Islamic charity works with all of the money he stole, from the US government and the mosque. After all, he is still a member in good standing of the religion of peace.
arjun.sevak:
The bail wasn't actual cash , his Lawyer
Pledge $1.5 mil in Food Stamps and can keep the difference above the $1.1 mil Bail amount.
This Muzzie weasel won't stop his flim flam
charade just because he was caught, taqiyya
is a career not a whim.
Wasn't this one of the sidekicks of Sammi al Arian? Ivmay well be wrong, but I think I remember reading that someplace.
Never trust a hippy
Or a f***ing ummah...(Sex Pistols)
maryrose-
Our Supreme Court has already ruled that "animal sacrifice for religious purposes" is Constitutionally allowed, and is not covered by regular animal cruelty laws that work for every other instance of such brutal behavior.
Brilliant bunch of baboons in black, eh?
Animal sacrifice is just fine by them.
(Maybe a rooster or goat beheaded on the approving justices' fronts lawns, daily, might have reminded them of the squalid unreality that rides herd on their little minds? Even using simulated critters with Hollywood fake blood would have been dramatic enough for the local press to take notice. But I don't live near D.C. and have to work for a living, so I couldn't spare the time for tsuch an exercise in "living democracy". Maybe some PETA member, delving into the jihad here, would have some time off from school this summer and could visit some such street theater on the men- and woman- in black?)
Norseman, Maryrose,
I would be arrested if I were caught stoning a dog or mistreating a cow. But, like profitsbeard observed above, halal is allowed in the U.S., like over here in India.