-------Dr. Rafil Dhafir-----
Posted on 02/10/2005 3:34:51 PM PST by TexKat
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An upstate New York doctor was found guilty on Thursday of illegally sending millions of dollars to Iraq, in violation of U.S. sanctions, authorities said.
Rafil Dhafir was convicted of 59 out of 60 charges ranging from conspiracy to money laundering to Medicare fraud after a 15-week federal trial in Syracuse, N.Y., prosecutors said.
Dhafir, an oncologist, used an unregistered charity named "Help the Needy" to solicit some $4 million in contributions in the United States and then launder much of it to Iraq through bank accounts in Jordan, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said he began sending money to Iraq in 1994, in violation of executive orders and Treasury Department regulations in place since 1990.
Dhafir, who will be sentenced in June, could be sentenced to more than 500 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Five of Dhafir's co-conspirators, including his wife and his accountant, have pleaded guilty to related charges, prosecutors said.
It was difficult to determine where the money went in Iraq, but it was not to charitable organizations, they said.
-------Dr. Rafil Dhafir-----
Hmmm...You think he`s Muslim. Naaa, couldn`t be.
No relation to your grocer, I hope.
Medicare = fraud
What a deceptive headline. They conveniently forget to mention the money laundering and Medicare fraud. Probably the same percentage of money from this "charity" made it to the Iraqi people as from the Oil for Food program.
O good. I hope he's prepared himself to live a wonderful life in prison 'for islam' lol
Where is he from? The City of Evil?
hopefully with some skinheads
NOT prison.....Shoot the bastard.
We have far too many of these sheetheads in prison...
Semper Fi
Here doing a job Americans won't do?
Rafil Dhafir had business ties to Bassem Khafaji.
The doc was formerly an IANA official.
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