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Hunt underway for former San Jose water company employee stole $9 million
Mercury News ^ | 5/13/09 | Howard Mintz

Posted on 05/13/2009 4:59:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Federal agents are on the hunt for a former California Water Services Company employee who quit his job a few weeks ago, broke into the firm's computers to wire $9 million into overseas bank accounts and then fled the region when confronted with criminal charges in Santa Clara County.

In court documents filed today in federal court in San Jose, law enforcement officials have charged Abdirahman Ismail Abdi with unlawful flight from prosecution after he disappeared from the area earlier this month. Local prosecutors and police determined that Abdi has been trying to flee the country since at least May 1, when he tried to book a flight to London just days after police searched his South Bay home.

Court papers show that Abdi, 32, resigned from his job as an auditor for the San Jose-based water company on April 27, and was spotted by a janitor returning that night to the office of a former co-worker. The following morning, water officials discovered that Abdi had engineered three wire transfers totalling more than $9 million from the company's accounts to an account in Qatar. The accounts were frozen and the money returned to the water company, according to court papers.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: hunt; sanjose; underway; watercompany

1 posted on 05/13/2009 4:59:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Something tells me there’s a movie plot in this ......


2 posted on 05/13/2009 5:00:25 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.


3 posted on 05/13/2009 5:00:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

DB Cooper is now retiring over seas


4 posted on 05/13/2009 5:02:08 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: NormsRevenge

A MooseLimb???
Raiding the infidels coffers???


5 posted on 05/13/2009 5:02:15 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: NormsRevenge

Abdirahman Ismail Abdi
funding terrorists?


6 posted on 05/13/2009 5:02:54 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Abdirahman Ismail Abdi

Damned Amish...

7 posted on 05/13/2009 5:03:02 PM PDT by Old Sarge (There is no god)
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To: NormsRevenge
"The accounts were frozen and the money returned to the water company"

That financial jihad stuff doesn't always pay off.

8 posted on 05/13/2009 5:03:07 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: NormsRevenge
"he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.

OH. That's rich. Sometimes, you really can't make this crap up.

9 posted on 05/13/2009 5:03:16 PM PDT by Big_Monkey (Flubama - bringing disease everywhere he goes.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Never trust a jihadist.


10 posted on 05/13/2009 5:03:24 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

I say he conspired to commit terrorism.Catch him...convict him (military tribunal)....and string him up.


11 posted on 05/13/2009 5:03:25 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: NormsRevenge
charged Abdirahman Ismail Abdi with unlawful flight from prosecution

Always wondered if there is a "lawful" flight to avoid prosecution.

12 posted on 05/13/2009 5:04:44 PM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: NormsRevenge; dennisw; Yehuda; dighton; sheik yerbouty
[Abdirahman Ismail] Abdi had engineered three wire transfers totalling more than $9 million from the company's accounts to an account in Qatar.

Probably just a slush fund for Starbucks coffee.

13 posted on 05/13/2009 5:04:47 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Maybe 0bama could invite to one of those WH Wed. night parties so he could receive a proper apology.


14 posted on 05/13/2009 5:05:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks Obama.


15 posted on 05/13/2009 5:13:43 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Big_Monkey
"he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia."

Does ANYBODY take deportation orders seriously? It's gotta be akin to receiving a strongly worded letter from the UN.

16 posted on 05/13/2009 5:15:32 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: NormsRevenge
he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.

With that last name, I was checking to see if he was Somali. The Somali who plotted to blow up a local mall had the same last name. Seems a common name for their country.

17 posted on 05/13/2009 5:27:23 PM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Does anybody else feal a little sick thinking about the fact that a person who was orderred deported four years ago was working for and receiving a paycheck with full benefits from a government entity. Unemployment of American citizen's is at 9%, Over 10% in California, 1/2 a million workers are being fired a month, and an illegal Somali immigrant is drawing a top pay government check.

I guess it really is impossible to fire a government worker!

18 posted on 05/13/2009 5:27:58 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town
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To: NormsRevenge

Not too much effort will be made to collar this Somalian criminal because the money was taken back from him. I sure hope his children are not US citizens...they could return to plague us


19 posted on 05/13/2009 5:29:50 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: Ghengis

Nothing good comes from Somalia and Kenya has a border with it ....hmmmmm....


20 posted on 05/13/2009 5:31:04 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I guess it really is impossible to fire a government worker! ..................

That just might have been a privately owned water company he tried to rip off. My guess it was


21 posted on 05/13/2009 5:34:26 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: NormsRevenge

I guess a Muslim with $9 million in cash is no danger to anyone...thank you, Congress, for your wonderful immigration policies since 1965...we are such a “better” nation.


22 posted on 05/13/2009 5:39:16 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: NormsRevenge

He must have heard the term “Spread the wealth”.


23 posted on 05/13/2009 5:46:04 PM PDT by Redcitizen (December 21, 2012; there's change for ya!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

When they find him no doubt they will forward his unemployment, social security and unemployment checks.


24 posted on 05/13/2009 5:47:34 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: NormsRevenge

Those Irish Catholics sure are clever!


25 posted on 05/13/2009 5:49:27 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: NormsRevenge

That’s what happens when you don’t use racial profiling.


26 posted on 05/13/2009 5:52:01 PM PDT by Eva (union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Can anyone explain why the State Department has gone out of its way to provide visas to tens of thousands of Somalis? Are they trying to prove that immigrants from failed states make bad citizens?


27 posted on 05/13/2009 5:53:31 PM PDT by Melchior
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To: dennisw

http://www.calwater.com/

California Water Service Company (Cal Water) is the largest investor-owned American water utility west of the Mississippi River and the third largest in the country. Formed in 1926, the San Jose-based company serves more than 460,000 customers through 28 Customer and Operations Centers throughout the state.

Cal Water is the largest subsidiary of the California Water Service Group, which also includes Washington Water Service Company, New Mexico Water Service Company, Hawaii Water Service Company, and CWS Utility Services. As a whole, the Group provides high-quality regulated and non-regulated utility services to approximately 2 million people in 100 communities.


28 posted on 05/13/2009 5:59:38 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: USMCPOP

Very good! Thanks for checking it out!


29 posted on 05/13/2009 6:14:02 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: freekitty

Emboldened. “It’s our world” time.


30 posted on 05/13/2009 6:15:14 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Impeach now!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Years ago when someone robbed another of money, by armed robbery or embezzlement, they were executed. Since the punishment no longer fits the crime, what is there as a deterrent to these miscreants?


31 posted on 05/13/2009 6:33:53 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: NormsRevenge
See now, if he had only taken about 3 million, and if a guy is careful he can live pretty good on 3, they probably wouldn't even bother looking for him, but, NO, he had to take the whole 9 mil. Shame on him!
32 posted on 05/13/2009 6:38:17 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Old Sarge

Someone needs to explain to me why every so often nasty remarks about the Amish are posted. Seems ignorant and crude without any reason to be rude or crude.


33 posted on 05/13/2009 9:27:16 PM PDT by newhouse
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To: newhouse

Its called humor. The Amish are the most nonviolent, least aggressive folk on the planet...everyone knows that... hence the tongue in cheek reference to the Amish in conjunction with crime...that’s what makes it funny.


34 posted on 05/13/2009 9:37:53 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Snurple

Okay- it just does not seem funny much. I did have to kind of think “so?” at an article the other day- headline referred to an Amish teen driving his buggy while DUI. Realizing no teen should be driving drunk- at least he was no threat to anyone. The horse puling the buggy certainly knew where he was going.


35 posted on 05/13/2009 10:19:42 PM PDT by newhouse
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To: newhouse

LOL...now that’s funny


36 posted on 05/13/2009 10:23:42 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: kalee

You surely jest!


37 posted on 05/13/2009 11:53:32 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: newhouse

It all has to do with the PC profiling bigotry following Sep. 11th.

No Muslim would ever be profiled by the government due to PC, but they strip-searched Norwegian grandmothers in the airports; no Muslim supporting group would ever get investigated, but conservative groups get wrung through the gauntlet.

So the comments started about Amish separatists and Norwegian senior-suicide squads because those are obviously who the government considers more of a threat than Muslim bombers.

And now we know for sure, because the DHS memo says we are.


38 posted on 05/14/2009 6:26:19 AM PDT by Old Sarge (There is no god)
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