Posted on 10/03/2007 5:29:22 AM PDT by fweingart
Yet Again, US Atty Abu Porno Let Key Hezbo Perpetrators Flee USA
Correction: Earlier today, I wrote that the report below was wrong and that Roy Bailey was placed on leave in 2003. I've since learned that this was in "incorrect correction" and that Bailey was placed on leave on February 5, 2004.
Executive Summary: A top U.S. Immigration official has been accepting bribes from Hezbollah operatives in America for years. But the U.S. Attorney--Stephen Murphy III, the Justice Department's top official in Eastern Michigan--delayed indictment for FOUR Years(!), while he quietly allowed the Hezbollah criminals involved to flee the country.
U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III: Hezbollah's U.S. Attorney Sat on Indictment for FOUR Years so Hezbo Suspects Could Flee Remember Roy Bailey a/k/a Roy M. Bailey? He's the former INS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office Director for Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) I wrote about. As I previous told you, he's been collecting a full salary plus benefits while not working for four years. As I also told you, he owned a Dodge Viper and lived the high life--at least, a life much higher than his ICE salary could reasonably support. He was accused of taking bribes from aliens to stop their deportations and of taking property from aliens once they were in detention and on their way out.
Well, Roy Bailey was finally indicted (the indictment was unsealed this morning), for taking bribes from Hezbollah-affiliated Shi'ite Muslims. But it is years--at least FOUR YEARS--too late, and all of the key Hezbollah suspects have been conveniently allowed to flee the country. As I've noted many times before, this is standard procedure for pan-Islamist U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno." Murphy sat for two years on an indictment of Hezbollah cigarette smugglers from the Hammoud family and waited until most of them fled the country before unsealing the indictment and getting the fanfare for pushing meaningless paper (which indictments against fugitives in Lebanon are--meaningless).
Abu Porno has it both ways. He gets to pretend that he is fighting corrupt federal agents and terrorists from groups like Hezbollah, while it's all a sham. At the same time, he's letting Hezbollah suspects all flee the country, and he gives them a wink and a nod as they leave, finally indicting them when they are gone. Such has been the case with Hezbollah's multi-million dollar financier, Talal Chahine (whom Murphy raided several times but then let him flee the country), with Hezbollah cigarette smugglers from the Hammoud family, and now, with those Muslims who bribed Roy Bailey.
If I were Bailey's defense attorney, I'd be screaming from the rooftops that a Black man (who is completely corrupt) is taking the fall while the racist prosecutor (and, yes, Murphy is a racist and has made anti-Black comments in the presence of several witnesses) lets all of the Arab Muslim Hezbollah co-conspirators leave the country and live in comfort. In fact, Hezbollah financier Chahine is a co-defendant in Bailey's indictment. Yet, Murphy a/k/a Abu Porno allows him to continue to draw from his Detroit-based bank accounts and restaurant chain, none of which have been frozen. Bailey, on the other hand, is Whit [no, not a typo] Out of Luck.
And Chahine's fate is the same as another Bailey co-defendant, Mohammed Bazzi. Even though he was well know as a member of Hezbollah and authorities strongly suspected him in various Hezbollah money-laundering activities, including cigarette smuggling and other fraud, U.S. Attorney Murphy allowed him to flee America.
And U.S. Attorney Murphy continued to allow Bailey to draw four years of $140,000 annual salary and full benefits while he vacationed at home. Why? Because Murphy had to wait until his friend Chahine left the country.
Frankly, it's not just Bailey's assets that should have been scrutinized. It's Murphy's. Just how much is Hezbollah paying Abu Porno? A lot, it appears.
The questions is: Is Murphy really the United State's of America's Attorney or Hezbollah's? I know the answer. And it isn't the former. Incredibly, the Bush Administration continues to pimp this man for Federal Court of Appeals Judge.
Here's more (with my commentary and corrections of bad Detroit Newsistan "reporting"):
A top immigration official in Detroit has been indicted by a federal grand jury for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to release aliens who were supposed to be deported and facilitate other immigration frauds. Part of the scam involved a fraud whereby LaShish Restaurants employees were able to stay in the country through fraudulent marriages to other LaShish employees, according to federal officials and a grand jury indictment unsealed today.
Talal Chahine, 52, owner of LaShish and already a fugitive on criminal tax charges believed to be living in Lebanon, is one of five defendants named in the indictment.
Roy M. Bailey, 54, of Romulus, who was assistant director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service field office in Detroit and director for detention and removal operations, is charged with accepting bribes, conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit extortion by a public official, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, failing to report a felony. . . .
Bailey was placed on leave in 2004, officials said.
It was not clear how much in total bribes Bailey is accused of accepting, but officials said it exceeds $50,000 in cash, jewelry, home improvements, landscaping and casino chips.
[DS: Not a surprise. We know that Talal Chahine kept running open accounts of casino chips for then-Dearbornistan Mayor Michael Guido at Detroit casinos. Since we also know that new Dearbornistan Mayor Jack O'Reilly was just as in bed with Chahine and voted for an inflated property purchase to benefit Chahine with millions, how much in bribes did O'Reilly get from Chahine?]
In addition to releasing and adjusting terms for aliens who were supposed to be deported, Bailey brought a gun across the border from Windsor for a local businessman, identified as "Samir L." who gave him more than $10,000 in bribes, the indictment alleges.
Bailey, who accepted free meals at the businessman's restaurants worth more than $5,000, also allowed an associate of Samir L.'s to enter the U.S. from Syria based on fraudulent documents, the indictment alleges.
Bailey is also accused of failing to report the theft of more than $300,000 from aliens housed at a deportation center in Monroe. Patrick Wynne, a former detention officer there, was sentenced to 57 months in prison in January 2006 for his role in those thefts.
[DS: The U.S. Attorney's office has known about this activity for more than FOUR years. But DID NOTHING. Why? To allow the Hezbollah actors in this case to flee the country.]
Antonio "Tony" Ivezaj, 39, of Milford, a criminal alien who was subject to a final deportation order, is charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery.
Ivezaj, who was released by Bailey, had a Ferndale construction company, TMI Construction Co., which did more than $5,000 in free residential construction work for Bailey, the indictment alleges. Ivezaj also obtained $50,000 in 2003 on behalf of another person in immigration custody who was released by Bailey at about the same time, the indictment alleges.
Chahine is not accused in the indictment of paying bribes to Bailey [DS: WHY NOT? Throw the whole book of charges at him. Thanks to Murphy, he's not here to face any of them], but of conspiracy to commit extortion by a public official.
The indictment alleges Chahine obtained more than $250,000 in cash and real estate from the family of a Lebanese man through extortion.
Also named in the indictment is Mohamad Arzouni, 59, of Dearborn Heights, identified as a LaShish employee, and Mohammad Bazzi, 61, a relative of Chahine's and a LaShish employee from 2001 to 2005. Bazzi, formerly of Detroit, is not yet in custody and may be in Australia, officials said.
[DS: U.S. Attorney Murphy let Bazzi flee the country. Hello . . .?]
Arzouni and Bazzi are each charged with conspiracy to defraud the federal government.
Murphy said the case is serious but he believes it is an isolated incident and he does not believe there is widespread corruption in the federal immigration service.
Isolated, my ass. This is regular practice for Muslims in America and those trying to get in.
And uh, no, Murphy doesn't believe the case is serious, or he'd freeze Chahine's assets and shut down his restaurants and bank accounts in America. And he wouldn't have let at least two key Hezbollah defendants flee the country. On the other hand, he must have thought the charges were serious enough that he allowed his Hezbo buddies to flee the country.
A few years back I remember something called “Treason”.
As I recall, it pertained to an offense of acting to overthrow one’s government and/or giving aid and comfort to an enemy.
Boy, I wish they’d put this law back on the books.
And I wish, along with all the rapists and murderers, that they’d liberally execute criminals and clean out death rows!
When the histories of this Bush administration are written in the years to come they will prove that he was a feckless administrator and had absolutely no control over the Justice Department.
Reads like a 10 year old with A.D.D. wrote it.
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Thanks for posting. Hooray Debbie!
The facts are all that’s important.
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