Posted on 07/07/2010 12:55:13 PM PDT by Willie Green
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former Michigan congressman accused of accepting stolen funds to lobby on behalf of an Islamic charity alleged to have funded terrorist groups pleaded guilty Wednesday to two charges, including obstruction of justice, but prosecutors said other serious charges were likely to be dropped.
Former Republican Rep. Mark Deli Siljander, who served in Congress from 1981 until 1987 and who served a yearlong term as a United Nations delegate, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City to obstruction and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
Money laundering and conspiracy charges would likely be dismissed under the terms of the 59-year-old Siljander's plea deal, said Don Ledford, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Western District of Missouri.
No sentencing date has been set, and Siljander remains free on bond.
Prosecutors said Siljander, who became a lobbyist after he left office, accepted $50,000 from a Missouri-based charity, the Islamic American Relief Agency, to push for its removal from a list of groups that finance terrorism.
Prosecutors say the group obtained the money from the U.S. Agency for International Development for work it was supposed to have done in Africa but didn't do.
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Deli?????
Sounds like a Punjabi to me....
A Republican in Michigan...who knew? lol. Just kidding...sorta.
A republican of course. Otherwise, the article wouldn’t have been printed.
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