Posted on 08/10/2008 9:39:54 AM PDT by Amityschild
More questions are are raised than answered in the further investigation of Obama's foreign donations.(hat tip Cathy) Farah Alaghband lives in London and is chairman of The Balli Group. Download alaghbandfarah.pdf
Farah Alaghband is chairman of the Bally group which has continually violated the sanctions against Iran in the futile effort to halt its nuclear enrichment program.
The Commerce Departments Bureau of Industry & Security is training its sights on the British steel trading giant Balli Group. Property of the Alaghband family of Iranian origin, Balli has been accused of leasing airliners to Tehran. But it is probably also being penalized for its key part in maintaining tight commercial and diplomatic ties between Iran and the West. How Three Boeing Airliners Ended Up in Iran. Even though one of the Balli Group's leading offices is in Houston, the company which boasts annual sales of over USD 1 billion, has been banned from exporting or helping to export American goods subject to restrictions until September 18 of this year. The Temporary Denial Order slapped on it by the BIS came on the heels of several operations in recent years by one of its affiliates, Balli Aviation. When United Airlines was placed under Chapter 11 in 2002, Balli Aviation bought three aging Boeing 747 airliners from the company (all three entered service in 1993). The aircraft were subsequently leased to another affiliate of the Balli Group, Blue Sky Airways, which began operating last year in Tehran to carry Iranian passengers to South East Asia and Mecca. (M0re here)
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Over here!!!
This is getting to be a time consuming unpaid job for me!!! I sure wish the MSM, gee, even the rightwing talk shows would pick this up.
You have my sympathies:) Researching this guy and trying to keep the tinfoil out of the picture, while tracking actual facts is tricky- yet vital.
One thing is clear- Barry has raked in gazillions of $ that is legally questionable.
If this data were available to the public in understandable format, I think many more questions would be raised. For now, it takes myself and others to ferret out what is questionable on its face and for Pamela to post it.
What is so sad is that the media is again falling down on the job.
And from the MSM? Any bright, curious reporters on this story and all the other reports on WND and Atlas Shrugs about TheOne’s fundraising irregularities?
OT: Why the heck hasn’t he called an emergency meeting of the subcommittee? Clueless.
Scroll down re: Old Acct. on Rezko numbers (unbelievable)
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