Posted on 11/12/2009 2:09:09 PM PST by VRWCTexan
Federal prosecutors are taking steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation’s ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The original lawsuit filed in December only sought Assa Corp.’s building share.
Prosecutors said both companies were sending money to Bank Melli, owned by the Iranian government. The U.S. Treasury has designated the bank as a weapons proliferator and banned U.S. citizens from dealing with it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AB5CH20091112
Ping.
This is going to make The Won very upset. I wonder if they waited until he left the continent. LOL.
suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation’s ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The original lawsuit filed in December only sought Assa Corp.’s building share.
Prosecutors said both companies were sending money to Bank Melli, owned by the Iranian government. The U.S. Treasury has designated the bank as a weapons proliferator and banned U.S. citizens from dealing with it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AB5CH20091112
Seizure has an important role in protecting our nation.
“The mosques and the office tower will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court.”
bam won’t like this. It will get monkeywrenched by holder just like the black panther crap. Watch.
Good Start
What about their first amendment rights need to get holder in there protectinem.
ACORN will buy them for $1 each on a sweet deal from the fed.
Writing at Forbes.com, Rachel Ehrenfeld this week reported that this group, which supports Iranian causes, gave the Clinton foundation between $25,000 and $50,000 on Dec. 19, 2008 — the very day the Alavi Foundation’s president, Farshid Jahedi, was indicted on federal charges related to a probe of the foundation’s relationship with Iran’s Bank Melli. (The donation, according to Ehrenfeld’s report, also came two days after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Alavi’s partner, the New York-based ASSA Corp., as a terrorist entity.) Both the Alavi Foundation and Bank Melli, Ehrenfeld reported, have been “recognized as procurement fronts for Iran’s nuclear program,” with Bank Melli being designated in 2007 as a terrorist entity.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/rubber_stamp_for_hillary.html
They are saying this could take years. Why not shut them down while the case proceeds? This is slow, slow slow. Gives them time to get all their stuff cleaned up and moved into different locations through a new pipeline.
If they were serious about protecting us, they would shut them down now and put a hold on their assets prior to seizure. It doesn’t take them any time at all for the Feds to seize an American property...or bank.
Yeah, yeah...I won’t hold my breath.
See Post #11. They have friends in high places.
How long till we see Rage Boy rioting in Islamabad?
5..4..3..2..1..
well someone better apologize..........
They ought to seize the UN building, for almost exactly the same reasons.
“Seizure has an important role in protecting our nation.”
In cases of breaking weapons embargos, & these muzzie terrorists, I would agree. It’s often the only way of hitting the real offender where it hurts them.
The government has no business taking property from ordinary people 99% of the time though.
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