Posted on 09/27/2012 4:47:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Anti-Islam Filmmaker Nakoula B. Nakoula Arrested, U.S. Attorney Says By EVAN PEREZ
Federal authorities in Los Angeles on Thursday arrested a man they believe was behind a video clip insulting to Muslims, alleging he violated terms of his probation on an earlier federal charge.
The alleged filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in a Los Angeles federal courtroom.
The United States Probation Office filed a request to revoke Mr. Nakoula's supervised release, alleging he violated terms he agreed to following his bank fraud conviction in 2010, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Under his probation agreement, Mr. Nakoula was prohibited from using computers and the Internet without supervision.
His attorney, Steven Seiden, wasn't available to comment Thursday afternoon, since he was at the arraignment.
Law-enforcement officials believe Mr. Nakoula is the same man who identified himself as Sam Bacile, and who claimed in news interviews, including with The Wall Street Journal, that he directed a film called "Innocence of Muslims." A clip posted to Google Inc.'s YouTube by someone calling himself Sam Bacile in July, which purported to be a trailer for a film about the Prophet Muhammad, has sparked deadly protests in the Middle East.
According to court documents from the fraud case, law enforcement officials alleged Mr. Nakoula used credit cards in the names of other people, and opened a bank account using yet another name. He then deposited fraudulent checks into the account and withdrew money from the account, federal authorities alleged in the documents.
Mr. Nakoula was initially charged with three counts of fraud. He agreed to plead guilty to one bank-fraud charge, according to court records and prosecutors.
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And to think the entire nation was aghast at Nixon’s cover-up of the two bit Plumbers break in.
How far we have fallen.
Or that they orchestrated.
You never know.
+10
“A clip posted to Google Inc.’s YouTube by someone calling himself Sam Bacile in July, which purported to be a trailer for a film about the Prophet Muhammad, has sparked deadly protests in the Middle East. “
You can always count on the WSJ to repeat a leftist media liberal Lie.
He used computers and the internet to perpetrate the bank fraud. It's not uncommon to see such restrictions on criminals.
He always gives hints that he's into something dirty. In this case he called the demonstrations a "natural reaction". He has to go or we will have blood in the streets as he goes about what he considers to be his "business" with the Nation. I don't believe anyone in his Administration would hesitate to "reason" with the People by killing a boatload of us.
I guess I was applying the First Amendment in its most basic element: Freedom to express political and social ideas and thoughts. I found it hard to believe that expressing one’s political ideas would be prohibited by having a conviction for bank fraud. Now, however, I see that prohibiting his use of a computer while on probation does make some sense, as apparently he did use the internet to commit the fraud. So, it that respect, his First Amendment rights are still inviolate, but his means of expression have been curtailed somewhat.
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