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  • Judge Tosses Terror Funding Guilty Plea

    05/11/2004 4:13:22 PM PDT · by Velveeta · 36 replies · 276+ views
    Newsday ^ | May 11, 2004, 6:49 PM EDT | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
    NEW YORK -- A judge on Tuesday threw out the guilty plea of an ice cream shop owner in Brooklyn whom prosecutors linked to funneling tens of thousands of dollars to al-Qaida and other terrorist networks. Judge Charles P. Sifton said the Yemeni proprietor, Abad Elfgeeh, had not understood the consequences of his guilty plea to illegally transferring money to bank accounts in Yemen, Switzerland, Thailand and China. FBI agents arrested Elfgeeh last year after learning that $20 million had passed through the bank accounts of his Brooklyn-based business from 1997 and 2003. He pleaded guilty in October. Elfgeeh, a...