Sunday, August 28th 2005
Another Reason to Eat Pizza
Now here’s a strange and interesting story:
The owner of a Hayward pizza parlor will serve four months of home detention and pay a five-thousand-dollar fine, after pleading guilty to illegally transferring money to a bounty hunter out to kill Osama bin Ladin.
Forty-one-year-old Noor Alocozy also was sentenced to three years of probation today in federal court.
Authorities say Alocozy transferred one (m) million dollars out of the country between 2002 and 2003. They say some of that money reached Jonathan “Jack” Idema, a jailed American mercenary who claimed he was on a counterterrorism mission with the U-S government.
Authorities say Idema — a former Green Beret — was a client of Alocozy’s money-transfer business, which operated out of his Liberty Pizza restaurant. Idema is now serving time in an Afghan prison after being convicted of running a private torture camp.
In a follow-up article:
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June indicated some money that passed through Alocozy’s business had gone to Jonathan “Jack” Idema, an American mercenary accused of abducting and interrogating Afghani citizens in his own personal quest to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. But Shaiken said Friday there was little evidence to support that connection, hence prosecutors’ decision not to pursue it. Alocozy “certainly didn’t intend to assist anybody in breaking the law.
I don’t know about you guys, but I totally expect a movie to come out of all this.
Hilarious!
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Comment by Ruthlilycat — 9/5/2005 @ 4:13 pm