Thread: Terror Task Force Strips Memphis Palestianian US Citizenship

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Terrorism Task Force Strips W Memphis Palestinian of Citizenship

MAY 3, 2005 - Posted at 4:26 p.m. CDT

LITTLE ROCK, AR - An investigation by an Arkansas terrorism task force has led to the conviction of a Palestinian-born West Memphis convenience store owner and the stripping of his U.S. citizenship.

U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said today that Hasan Ali Ayesh was sentenced to five years probation and had his citizenship revoked for withdrawing more than $6.4 million without reporting it, for wire fraud and for naturalization fraud.

The Joint Terrorism Task Force of the prosecutor's office, the FBI and the Arkansas Immigration and Customs Enforcement office found that Ayesh had withdrawn $9,900 six-hundred-and-fifty times to try to get nearly $6.5 million past federal authorities. Cummins said today that Ayesh sent a large portion of the money out of the country.

The task force also found that by swearing he wasn't involved in any criminal activity, Ayesh also lied under oath to obtain his U.S. citizenship.

Cummins said Ayesh wasn't charged with any terrorism-related offenses, but the large amount of money involved was a red flag to the task force. Cummins said that Ayesh's Arab ethnicity was not the reason the task force got involved, and a naturalized person from Ireland or Lithuania would have received the same attention for the same activity.

There is no mention of deportation. This is very dangerous! This kind of reporting is too under-reported.

He was smart enough to keep it under 10,000 The amount that has to be reported to the Government.

I guess they are watching for 9,900 also.

Why isn't the same being done with the millions each month being sent to Latin America?