Posted on 10/08/2018 12:48:53 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Hussain is listed as the owner of Prestige Limousine, which operated the 2001 Ford Excursion stretch limo that crashed Saturday in Schoharie, N.Y., according to federal records, which showed that four vehicles had been taken out of circulation by the company due to inspection failures in the past 24 months.
Hussain became an FBI informant after being convicted of federal fraud charges in 2002 in Albany, according to the Albany Times Union. He was taking payments from immigrants, some of whom could not read English, in a scheme to cheat on state exams to obtain driver's licenses.
As part of one of the FBI stings, Albany imam Yassin Aref and an acquaintance who owned a pizza shop were accused of laundering money for Hussain in connection with a fictitious terror plot, the paper reported.
They were convicted in 2006 and both sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
Hussain reemerged as an FBI informant in 2009, when four Newburgh men were charged with conspiring to plant explosives outside two Bronx synagogues. Hussain befriended one of the men at a Newburgh mosque while posing as a wealthy businessman and then met the other three before implicating all of them them in the terror plot.
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who didn’t see this one coming?
Starting too look strange if true
me
Do we know the name of the driver?
So, as an FBI employee did he get a pass on laws and regulations?
A hideous disgusting person. Why do we allow them to prosper here? Oh, wait...NY Sate....Cuomo Mafia Land.
The bar for employment at the FBI must be pretty LOW
I jokingly replied to an earlier thread that the accident was either faulty brakes or a strange Jihad attack.
Not so funny anymore.
He was a professional, probably paid, FBI “informant” in various “sting” cases people thought were cases of FBI entrapment.
Are you saying...
Nah!
an fbi informant is not the same thing as an fbi employee.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
You are not far off the mark.
Wonder if he blows the FBI cover in exchange for staying out of jail?
“The bar for employment at the FBI must be pretty LOW”
Thoughtful of the FBI to out their informant.
I didn’t see it listed but it does say he didn’t have a proper license to drive a limo.
Really? They get paid out of the same checkbook.
Well, if he was an informant whose testimony helped to put terrorists away, then he’s more of a “good guy” than a bad one.
We need to know the name and background of the driver. A little payback for something a good Muslim would consider treason?
The company will be ruined, I think, after all the lawsuits.
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