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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 01:36 PM
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TX: Feds not following $$ trail of Middle East crime family
Yeah, this war on terror is going really well...Officers and their families targets of alleged assassination plots, MONEY trails not being followed by the feds just so they can QUICKLY jail/deport people. Hey, shrub, why don't you want the money followed? Scared where/who it might lead to...????


http://cbs11tv.com/investigations/local_story_132121258.html


Det. Campbell and his wife go to these extraordinary lengths because they and their children have been marked for assassination. A ruthless criminal crime family he spent years investigating and helped break up in 2003 wants them dead. Federal authorities confirm that the Palestinian gang known as the "Ghali crime family," which ran one of the nation's most prolific retail theft rings from Fort Worth, has hatched what one top official called a "credible" plot from behind bars. The plot targets Campbell, his family, and Campbell's longtime partner in the investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Scott Springer.
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But a different motive may be at work: CBS-11 has learned that the Ghali organization continues to operate its illegal business from behind bars, using unjailed associates on the outside to continue the retail theft operations all over North Texas.
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As the investigation of the Ghali organization continued, prosecutors decided it should be handled strictly as a criminal matter rather than a terror investigation. The decision was in line with an unwritten Department of Justice directive for federal investigative agencies to use the quickest legal means to jail or deport anyone with suspected terrorist ties. It therefore remains unclear where the millions generated by the Ghali organization ended up. Records show the crime family spent relatively little on themselves in North Texas and sent the bulk of their profits to the Middle East, where authorities pretty much lost the trail.


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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 01:39 PM
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1. The BFEE at work.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 10:49 PM
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2. Once again a BFEE/TX/Middle East funding connection...
And I am sure chimp will get right on this lost money trail problem...it's probably with that unaccounted-for $100 million "rebuild Iraq" bank account.
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:05 AM
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3. Don't forget the 8.8 Billion missing from Iraq's accounts on the US watch
DuhByah don't even want to hear about that.
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