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NY: Owner of limo company involved in lethal crash is Muslim ex-FBI informant once arrested for murder in Pakistan

Oct 9, 2018 9:51 am By Robert Spencer

The terrible limousine accident that killed 20 people in Schoharie, New York on Saturday came about because of a limousine that was “modified unofficially,” apparently by a company owned by a Muslim who was once arrested for murder in Pakistan, was nonetheless granted asylum in the U.S., and became an FBI informant, stopping one jihad mass murder plot, albeit under questionable circumstances in which he appears to have at times turned off the surveillance microphones. What did he say to the jihadis at those times? Why was he admitted to the U.S.? Why was he able to operate a business freely with limousines that were “modified unofficially” despite his extensive record of criminal activity? Once again we see the clueless and corrupt FBI facing multiple questions that it will most certainly not answer. If there was ever a swamp that needed draining, it is that one.

“EXCLUSIVE – Owner of limousine company involved in horror crash is a former FBI informant who was paid $96,000 to go undercover to expose terror plots after fleeing to the US from Pakistan where he’d been accused of murder,” by Jennifer Smith and Martin Gould, Dailymail.com, October 8, 2018:

The owner of the limousine company behind Saturday’s horror crash which killed 20 people is a former FBI informant who went undercover to record alleged terrorists in mosques after fleeing to the US from Pakistan in the 1990s where he’d been accused of murder, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Shahed Hussain, 62, is named as the owner of Prestige Limousines, aka Hasy Limos and Saratoga Luxury Limousine, in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration documents.

In the last two years, the company has had at least four cars pulled out of service because they failed safety inspections.

The most recent was the modified 2001 Ford Excursion limousine which was carrying 17 passengers when driver Scott Lisinicchia crashed on Saturday, killing himself, all those on board and two pedestrians in the parking lot he came screeching into after running a stop sign in Schoharie, New York.

Ford has confirmed to DailyMail.com that if [sic] never manufactured the vehicles in limousine form so the one operated by Prestige had to have been modified unofficially.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that the company was now under investigation and is no longer allowed to operate.

Despite repeated attempts to make contact with Hussain, he has not commented on the tragedy and the company’s websites are now disabled.

But 2010 court documents from the terrorism trials of four men who plotted to blow up the synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down planes coming out of Newburgh airbase reveal Hussain’s past ties to the FBI.

In 2002, he convinced the bureau to take him on after being caught running a dangerous DMV scan which helped prospective drivers cheat on their tests.

Hussain arrived in the United States in 1994 after fleeing his native Pakistan where he had been arrested for murder.

After his father bribed local police to let him go, Hussain fled the country, using a British passport to leave Pakistan, enter Moscow and then travel to Mexico.

From Mexico, he entered the US through El Paso in Texas. From there, he traveled to Albany.

Hussain then contacted an immigration lawyer who was then able to get him legal status by applying for political asylum. It enabled him to start working for the DMV where he was a translator.

There, he started a racket where he offered prospective drivers guaranteed pass-marks in their road tests or safety quizzes for a fee by ensuring they went to corrupt examiners.

In 2002, the FBI arrested him for the scam.

Rather than go to jail, he took a plea deal which involved him working as a confidential informant and he spent the next several years recording other conversations in the DMV for their benefit, incriminating his friends and colleagues.

Four years later, after filing bankruptcy and buying his son an Audi with money he claimed he’d been given by Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, he bought the hotel in Gansevoort which became the Crest Inn.

He then was put to work by the FBI to infiltrate mosques, specifically in Newburgh, New York, and look for what he described as ‘radicals’. The FBI paid him a salary of $96,000 for the work.

‘He was sent there per a number of reasons regarding other FBI investigations but I always ask him to keep his ears open if he heard individual speaking radically, including everyone has free rights to speech, but if it’s regarding possible threats, I wanted that information,’ FBI Agent Robert Fueller testified.

His work in the Newburgh mosques, particularly the Masjid al-Ikhlas led, in part to the arrests of James Comitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen.

They plotted to plant bombs at synagogues in the Bronx – Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center – and they also plotted to shoot down military planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base.

The three men were arrested when Hussain drove them to the Riverdale mosque with explosives. Authorities were waiting for them.

However valuable his undercover work was, he came under scrutiny as a witness and reliable informant during the trial when it was suggested he had turned off his recording equipment during crucial moments of conversation with the suspects.

He also failed to disclose to the FBI that he was the beneficiary of a $500,000 trust fund in Pakistan while collecting a salary from the bureau and claiming bankruptcy.

There were also claims of entrapment and even the judge who convicted the four men ruled in her verdict that Hussain’s behavior as an informant was ‘troubling’….

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  1. Susan B says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 10:12 am

    First time I heard about the tragic death of 20 people I immediately thought muslim. That is always my go to. Of course none of this pertinent information will make to the MSM. Now if he was a white male and republican….. Trump please disclose unredacted FISA; time to get serious about cleaning the house of all the deep state traitors which includes the MSM.

    • Mac-101 says

      Oct 9, 2018 at 11:50 pm

      So how about the driver? Muslim too?

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Oct 10, 2018 at 5:20 am

        Yes. There is something fishy about this ‘accident’, don’t you think? I would be interested to read the autopsy reports.

    • carpediadem says

      Oct 10, 2018 at 12:36 am

      Me too.

    • Clive Stephen Delmonte says

      Oct 10, 2018 at 6:25 am

      The limos had been modified, apparently, so as to be capable of doing what, exactly ?

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Oct 10, 2018 at 6:30 am

        Making more money for the owner. Sod the safety regs, they’re only for the stupid infidels.

  2. Emilie Green says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 10:26 am

    It’s entirely possible that this was deliberate, not an accident. A form of jihad against the infidel.

  3. Patsy Koenig says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    Question: If Muslim immigrants and their mosques are so good for America…then why does the FBI need to pay informants to infiltrate the mosques to learn about terror plots???!!! Answer: Islam is not good for America and Muslims should not be allowed to immigrate to the USA!

    • katherine says

      Oct 9, 2018 at 10:26 pm

      Ask Trump when is he ever going to drain the FBI swamp and its Islamic cells. Is there any other department or organization with the authority to shake out the FBI ?

      Obama and the Clintons are still waging war against the President through this rouge bureau.

      So sad.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Oct 10, 2018 at 5:28 am

        The swamp did not appear overnight, and will not be drained overnight. Don’t worry, Trump is working on this Herculean task in a very calculated, methodical way. The Left’s hysterical objection to Kavanaugh had nothing to do with sexual assault, and everything to do with military tribunals.

      • Carolyne says

        Oct 10, 2018 at 11:39 am

        Apparently this is the type of individual recruited to work for the FBI. IMO the FBI is the most corrupt agency in the US government. They seem to somehow get the wanted results in an investigation. While I believe that the Dems were trying to frame Justice Kavanaugh for a crime he did not commit, I thought it was funny that they called in the FBI to investigate him. I was just surprised that the FBI didn’t frame him too. Probably were just afraid to do it considering that President Trump is looking closely at their operations. If the owner of the limo company was an FBI informant, it is just further proof of the corruption and ineptitude of the FBI.

  4. Jacqueline Lehman Davidson says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    My first thought was that the driver was probably Muslim.

  5. infidel says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 1:20 pm

    It is quite possible that the driver could have been a recent convert and gotten radicalized!!! That needs to be looked at… As for the vile creature called Hussain… just looking at his trail.. U can never trust these fellows, esp the Pakis and the Somails.. the WORST OF THE WORST in all aspects. While the Somalis are violent, the Pakis are deadly schemers with smooth talk and both do not hesitate to stoop to any level to do others in, esp vile acts of extreme betrayal

  6. underbed cat says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 1:48 pm

    The DMV issuing licenses for truck drivers, limo drivers, heavy machinery operators, and dam inspectors could be a an interesting study. Goals and incidents and methods.

  7. James Arness says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    Government regulators have everything under control………… until something happens.

  8. Taqwiya says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 4:24 pm

    I heard one of the shareholders in the company is friends with the cousin of the owner of the pizza joint frequented by Bin Laden’s sister in law.

    Six degrees of Jihad

  9. pemba says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    The owner is Muslim, and probably radicalized Muslim, smart to kill non – Muslims under the pretext of
    Auto Accident.
    The guy deserves lethal injection ASAP.

  10. Undaunted says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    Amazing that the Fan Belt Inspectors again blew it when it comes to evaluating and controlling their snitches.

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 9, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    NY: Owner of limo company involved in lethal crash is Muslim ex-FBI informant once arrested for murder in Pakistan
    ………………..

    I had not realized when I first heard about this terrible case that the perpetrator was Muslim. This should not surprise.

  12. Hector Archyats says

    Oct 10, 2018 at 7:05 am

    It is the driver that we would earn 72 virgins in paradice for killing unbelievers. So, the driver should be investigate and as far as I can read the owner is just negligent, you can’t charge the owner for manslaughter on this.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Oct 10, 2018 at 7:31 am

      If the vehicle was illegally modified, as is apparently the case, the owner can certainly be charged.

  13. Hector Archytas says

    Oct 10, 2018 at 7:18 am

    The driver name is Scott Lisinicchia. He is not muslim. It is just a reckless business owner story and this one is unlikely to have anything to do with Islam.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Oct 10, 2018 at 7:44 am

      News reports state that the driver was a Muslim, Hector.

  14. Obbop says

    Oct 10, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Any updates on prior news stories stating the immigrant thief con man scum filth fled the USA?

    • Mac-101 says

      Oct 10, 2018 at 10:39 pm

      A friend said they read that the owner is back in Pakistan and the authorities said they do NOT have enough to git him back. No LOL!
      .
      . Any word on the religion of the people killed in the Limo? If they were Saturday People the that very well could have drove a Muslim driver insane, or even Christians if they were discussing goin to Israel or something like dat.

      • Lawrence says

        Oct 11, 2018 at 1:47 am

        They were from a Christian background. You don’t know, four sisters and their husbands were all killed, going to a 30th birthday bash. The driver was not it would seem a Muslim. The crash happened because the limo was in bad shape, should be apparent from the article.

        • Mac-101 says

          Oct 11, 2018 at 9:03 am

          If your vehicle loses it’s brakes and you are goin down a hill, you ride the hill upslope side into the guard rails if provided and attempt to stop the Limo. Not drive it straight down to the bottom through a T intersection. So Stupid or intentional, I’d say. The driver’s wife said the deriver was a Big Rig driver for years. He’d have a plan for brake failure. We’ll never find out.

  15. Paddy OConnor says

    Oct 10, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    As soon as I read this in the news I knew it was another Jihad attack.

  16. wtd says

    Oct 10, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    SkyNews: Limousine company owner’s son charged over crash that left 20 dead
    TheSun: New York Limo Crash: Limo owner’s son charged with criminally negligent homicide following deadly crash
    https://i.imgur.com/339kC2D.jpg
    Heavy.com: Nauman Hussain: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    https://i.imgur.com/1Np5qnF.jpg

  17. Kelly M says

    Oct 12, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    None of this info was reported in Upstate NY, as far as I can find. I just sent this article to Daniel Horowitz.
    Thank you, Robert Spencer, for all that you do. I tweet out every article.
    I’m on a Facebook break…

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