Reply #59: Will Chertoff’s ties to the 9-11 financiers prevent his confirmation?

[RBHam]

I mentioned this little gem to Mike on friday...the mainstream media didn't even touch this on the weekend - when they usually bury the "troubling" news items...

Will Chertoff’s ties to the 9-11 financiers prevent his confirmation?

http://www.universitystar.com/main/article.php?aid=1236

Security Risk?

by: Melissa Johnson and Sander Hicks, News Reporter and Special to the Star -

Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.

According to a June 20, 2000 article in the The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir.

Elamir’s HMO was sued by the State of New Jersey to recoup $16.7 million in losses. At least $5.7 million went “to unknown parties... by means of wire transfers to bank accounts where the beneficial owner of the account is unknown,” according to the article.

Foreign intelligence reports given to then chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman,
R-New York, in 1998 accused Magdy Elamir of having “had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,” according to an Aug. 2, 2002 Dateline NBC broadcast.


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