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Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy ... and Naturalization Fraud
DOJ Press Release ^ | NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Posted on 11/13/2007 11:43:40 PM PST by calcowgirl

Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Unauthorized Computer Access and Naturalization Fraud

DETROIT – Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

The announcement was made today by Stephen J. Murphy, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan; Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Willie T. Hulon, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch; Brian M. Moskowitz, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and Kurt Rice, Chicago Field Office Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

At a hearing in Detroit before the U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn, Prouty entered a plea of guilty to counts one, two and three of a second superseding information. Count one of the information charges conspiracy, for which the maximum penalty is five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Count two charges unauthorized computer access, for which the maximum penalty is one year imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Count three charges naturalization fraud, for which the maximum penalty is 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and requires the court to de-naturalize the defendant.

“This case highlights the importance of conducting stringent and thorough background investigations,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy. “It’s hard to imagine a greater threat than the situation where a foreign national uses fraud to attain citizenship and then, based on that fraud insinuates herself into a sensitive position in the U.S. government. I applaud the excellent investigative work of the FBI, ICE and DHS, which led to the successful prosecution today.”

“It is a sad day when one of our public servants breaches our security and trust,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein. “This defendant engaged in a pattern of deceit to secure U.S. citizenship, to gain employment in the intelligence community, and to obtain and exploit her access to sensitive counterterrorism intelligence. It is fitting that she now stands to lose both her citizenship and her liberty.”

“We became aware of this compromise in December 2005 and moved to address any further damage,”said Willie T. Hulon, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch. “The FBI worked closely with other agencies to investigate this matter. We continue to evaluate our security practices and will make any necessary changes.”

“Nada Proudy’s guilty plea should serve as a solemn warning to those who say they’ve pledged their allegiance to the United States and then make the conscious decision to place America’s interests at risk,” said Brian M. Moskowitz, Special Agent in Charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Detroit. “Becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen is an honor and a privilege. ICE will do everything in its power to see that those who achieve this honor by fraud and deception are brought to justice.”

Naturalization Fraud

According to documents filed in court by the government, Prouty first entered the United States from Lebanon on June 24, 1989, on a one-year, non-immigrant student visa. After her visa expired, she remained in the country, residing in Taylor, Mich., with her sister, Elfat El Aouar, and an individual named Samar Khalil Nabbouth. In order to remain in the United States and evade U.S. immigration laws, Prouty later offered money to an unemployed U.S. citizen to marry her. On August 9, 1990, Prouty married the U.S. citizen. As planned, Prouty never lived with her fraudulent “husband,” but continued to live with her sister and Nabbouth.

Prouty later submitted a series of false, fraudulent and forged documents and letters to federal immigration officials to verify the validity of the fraudulent marriage in order to obtain permanent residency status, and, later, U.S. citizenship, thereby committing naturalization fraud. On Aug. 5, 1994, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service granted Prouty U.S. citizenship under the name “Nada Nadim Deladurantaye.” The following year, she filed for a divorce from her fraudulent husband, and later obtained a U.S. passport, which she used to travel overseas.

Talal Khalil Chahine

According to court documents, from May 1992 through April 1993, and again, from August through November 1994, Prouty was employed as a waitress and hostess at La Shish Inc., a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in Detroit that was owned by Talal Khalil Chahine. During this time, Chahine wrote a letter for submission into Prouty’s immigration file attesting to the validity of Prouty’s false marriage.

Chahine is currently a fugitive believed to be in Lebanon. He, along with Prouty’s sister, Elfat El Aouar, and others were charged in 2006 in the Eastern District of Michigan with tax evasion in connection with a scheme to conceal more than $20 million in cash received by La Shish restaurants and to route funds to persons in Lebanon. Last month, Chahine was also charged in the Eastern District of Michigan, along with a senior ICE official in Detroit and others in a bribery and extortion conspiracy in which federal immigration benefits were allegedly awarded to illegal aliens in exchange for money.

Employment at FBI and CIA

In April 1999, through a series of false representations and use of her fraudulently procured proof of U.S. citizenship, Prouty, then known as “Nada Nadim Alley,” obtained employment as a special agent of the FBI. It was a prerequisite to FBI employment that she be a U.S. citizen. As a special agent with the FBI, Prouty was granted a security clearance and assigned to the FBI’s Washington Field Office to work on an extraterritorial squad investigating crimes against U.S. persons overseas. During her tenure with the FBI, Prouty was not assigned to work on investigations involving the international terrorist group Hizballah.

In August 2000, Prouty’s sister, Elfat El Aouar, entered into a marriage with Talal Khalil Chahine, the owner of La Shish Inc. In September 2000, Prouty, while employed as an FBI special agent, used the FBI’s computerized Automated Case System (ACS), without authorization, to query her own name, her sister’s name, and that of her brother-in-law, Talal Khalil Chahine. In addition, on or about June 4, 2003, Prouty accessed the FBI’s ACS and obtained information from a national security investigation into Hizballah that was being conducted by the FBI’s Detroit Field Office.

According to court documents, in August 2002, Prouty’s sister, Elfat El Aouar, and her brother-in-law, Talal Khalil Chahine, attended a fundraising event in Lebanon where the keynote speakers were Chahine himself and Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. Sheikh Fadlallah had previously been designated by the U.S. government as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist based upon his status as a leading ideological figure with Hizballah.

In June 2003, through a series of false representations and use of her fraudulently procured proof of U.S. citizenship, Prouty, then known as “Nada Nadim Prouty,” voluntarily left her position with the FBI and obtained employment with the CIA. It was also a prerequisite to CIA employment that she be a U.S. citizen.

On Nov. 6, 2007, Prouty resigned her position at the CIA. Pursuant to the terms of her plea agreement, she has agreed to fully and truthfully cooperate with the CIA on any matters the CIA deems necessary to transition Prouty out of its employment in a manner consistent with safeguarding the national security of the United States. This cooperation includes participation in debriefing and polygraph interviews.

The ongoing investigation into this matter is being conducted by the FBI and ICE, with assistance from the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, and the Internal Revenue Service.

The case is being prosecuted by Eric M. Straus, Chief of the National Security Unit, and Kenneth R. Chadwell, Assistant U.S. Attorney, from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Michigan, as well as Mark J. Jebson, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and Senior Assistant Chief Counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/13/2007 11:43:43 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl
I'm afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg. Our nation's intelligence network and State Department are completely infested.

Countless foreigners and first generation Americans are entrusted with information vital to our nation's national security while other American citizens are viewed with suspicion.

I'm aware of a case here in Southeast Asia where the member of a foreign government has access to information that he should not have. He has even been given the names of US intelligence officials working in the region in the spirit of "intelligence cooperation". For American citizens to have such access both a need to know and a security clearance is in order, but for foreign nationals that is not always the case.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

2 posted on 11/13/2007 11:46:22 PM PST by expatguy (Support Conservative Blogging - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: calcowgirl
...pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA;.....

What a joke.

I've seen people escorted out of my building, forcibly removed in several cases.

All waiting for their 'security clearance paper work to clear".....

More than one..."Do you see that Metro / Sheriff car at the end of sidewalk? That be your ride, beootch!"

See ya!

I would not trust the FBI / CIA to tell me what time of day it is......should I bother to ask.

3 posted on 11/14/2007 12:12:00 AM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: calcowgirl
Prouty later offered money to an unemployed U.S. citizen to marry her. On August 9, 1990, Prouty married the U.S. citizen. As planned, Prouty never lived with her fraudulent “husband,” but continued to live with her sister and Nabbouth...On Aug. 5, 1994, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service granted Prouty U.S. citizenship under the name “Nada Nadim Deladurantaye.” The following year, she filed for a divorce from her fraudulent husband, and later obtained a U.S. passport, which she used to travel overseas.

And WHY is the name of this co-conspirator not given? And what (if any) penalty did they pay for taking the thirty pieces of Islamofascist silver to betray our Country?

It's wartime, and that is TREASON, and it *used* to be enough reason for Death By Hanging.
4 posted on 11/14/2007 1:16:21 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: mkjessup
This story is a wake up call to all the idiots that think the CIA/FBI are “protecting” us. They should have gotten at least a wake up call when the half wits at the State Dept. wanted to refuse to serve at embassies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You probably couldn’t find two of these “public servants”, actually interested in serving the public, anywhere in our federal government. It is every man for himself, seemingly.

I don’t trust the FBI or the CIA. The Hanson case convinced me that I need to hang onto my guns, cause, really, that’s all I’ve got.

5 posted on 11/14/2007 4:05:36 AM PST by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.....for without victory there is no survival." Winston Churchill)
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To: calcowgirl
The author of "Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender" was interviewed on KSFO, yesterday. His information explained a lot about the CIA.

Listen to it in the 8 am segment of the show.

Summary: The establishment at the CIA believes that Pres. Bush was selected, not elected.
6 posted on 11/14/2007 4:51:24 AM PST by Lord Basil
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To: expatguy; gubamyster; HiJinx

This case has gotten very little attention here, which is sad.

CBS news reported last night that investigators were looking to see if she had done any ‘harm’.

I don’t recall Benedict Arnold getting a break because his plans didn’t get to the British in time.


7 posted on 11/14/2007 8:20:45 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: calcowgirl; mkjessup; mom4kittys; Sun; circumbendibus; gidget7; pissant; Ultra Sonic 007; ...

More on this.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/hizballahs_penetration_of_the.php

[snip]Hizballah’s Penetration of the FBI, CIA
By Steven Emerson

As noted by Michael Cutler, the sister-in-law of Hizballah-linked fugitive Talal Chahine pled guilty today to fraudulently obtaining her citizenship, using her illegally acquired status to attain employment with both the FBI and CIA, and illegally using government computers to gather Hizballah-related intelligence.

Nadia Nadim Prouty, aka Nadia Nadim Al Aouar, came to the U.S. in 1990 on a non-immigrant visa, overstayed her visa and entered into a fraudulent marriage in Michigan to a U.S. citizen. Prouty submitted a series of fraudulent affidavits, notably from her sister Elfat Al Aouar and her husband, Talal Chahine, attesting to the validity of Prouty’s marriage. According to the federal government, “As planned, [Prouty] never lived as husband and wife with her fraudulent ‘husband’ and the marriage was never consummated sexually.”

But Prouty did use her newly gained citizenship to get a job as a Special Agent with the FBI, which requires U.S. citizenship for employment, in 1999. Prouty was given a security clearance and tasked to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

According to prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan, Prouty used FBI computers - absent authorization - to run searches on herself, her sister and her brother in law, Elfat Al Aouar and Talal Chahine, owners of the popular Michigan-based restaurant chain, La Shish.

In May 2006, Chahine and Al Aouar were charged with tax evasion, with some of the proceeds allegedly funneled to Hizballah. As part of that case, the government asserted, in a written proffer that Chahine and his wife attended a fundraising event in Lebanon in August 2002 with Hizballah Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a Specially Designated Terrorist (see page 8), where the two men were the keynote speakers.

The proffer also claims that a search of El Aouar’s residence turned up a “thank you letter” for sponsoring 40 “orphans,” as well as images of Chahine and his family in front of a Hizballah outpost. According to the proffer:

“[t]he government is aware that the sponsorship of orphans is a euphemism used by Hizballah to refer to the orphans of martyrs. This is a common public relations and recruitment tool used by Hizballah. Hizballah gains favor with the public in Lebanon by supporting ‘orphans,’ while at the same time recruiting others into the terrorist organization willing to sacrifice their lives in terrorist operations based in part on the promise that Hizballah will take care of their families.”

As I wrote last year, Chahine is also connected to the Hizballah-linked charity al-Mabarrat......


8 posted on 11/14/2007 9:04:40 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: AuntB; Jim Robinson
After posting this thread last night, I saw that there were many more articles posted on the subject, but since titles won't show up in "search" with words of only three letters (like CIA and FBI), they didn't show up in the search. I tried to "keyword" the threads with "Prouty" so that they would be easily located, but the mods must have deleted the keyword--and now it won't let me input that word. JimRob--is the use of keywords in this manner discouraged for some reason?

Here are the articles I found:

Suspected Hezbollah Mole Pleads Guilty To FBI File Snooping

CIA officer pleads to fraud {immigration, sham marriage)

LA SHEESH! FBI, CIA Duped by Ex-Waitress

A Hizbollah Mole?

Former FBI, CIA Employee Pleads Guilty to Computer Crime

Ex-FBI Agent Accused Of Security Breach

Former FBI Agent Accused Of Leaking Info (to Hezbollah sympathizers)


9 posted on 11/14/2007 9:42:13 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: mkjessup


It’s wartime, and that is TREASON, and it *used* to be enough reason for Death By Hanging”

USED to be!


10 posted on 11/14/2007 9:44:07 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: calcowgirl

I searched but didn’t see them either. If people would put some keywords in their posts when they post the articles, it would make it easier.


11 posted on 11/14/2007 9:55:16 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: calcowgirl; milford421

The threat of terrorism is worse than any of us can imagine.


12 posted on 11/14/2007 5:08:57 PM PST by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-God/life/borders, understands Red China threat, NRA A+rating! www.gohunter08.com)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
"It’s wartime, and that is TREASON, and it *used* to be enough reason for Death By Hanging”

We know at least a dozen Democrats in Congress and the State Department that meets the definition of treason.

13 posted on 11/17/2007 3:07:36 AM PST by moonman
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To: calcowgirl

Chahine is currently [as of Nov 2007] a fugitive believed to be in Lebanon. He, along with Prouty’s sister, Elfat El Aouar, and others were charged in 2006 in the Eastern District of Michigan with tax evasion in connection with a scheme to conceal more than $20 million in cash received by La Shish restaurants and to route funds to persons in Lebanon. Last month, Chahine was also charged in the Eastern District of Michigan, along with a senior ICE official in Detroit and others in ***!***a bribery and extortion conspiracy in which federal immigration benefits were allegedly awarded to illegal aliens in exchange for money....***!***


14 posted on 09/28/2024 8:03:57 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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