Elfat El Aouar, the wife of Michigan restaurateur and Hizbullah fundraiser Talal Chahine, was sentenced this week to 90 days in prison and stripped of her U.S. citizenship for citizenship fraud, the Freep reported today. She will serve the sentence simultaneously with an 18-month term she received last May for helping Chahine in his tax evasion and Hizbullah fundraising scheme.
According to the Freep, "two of al Aouar’s sisters — including Nada Nadim Prouty, the former FBI agent and CIA operative who pleaded guilty late last year — were targeted in the investigation. A former roommate , a decorated Marine Corps captain [and ‘sister-in-law’ in the marriage scams], also pleaded guilty in the case.”
All the women involved are Lebanese.
Prouty, the Freep continued, “pleaded guilty to accessing an FBI computer system she wasn’t authorized to use to find out whether she, her sister or
Chahine were being investigated and to read details about a Detroit-based investigation of Hizbullah. It’s unclear what Prouty, 37 (pictured), of Vienna, Va., did with the information. Authorities suspect she shared it with Chahine. A sentencing date hasn’t been set in her case.”
This blog reported on the case extensively in November 2007, including speculation that the women were Hizbullah moles and the fact that Chahine’s son, Khalil Talal Chahine, is serving a 20-30 year sentence for murder.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Update on Detroit's Hizbullah Sisters:
Wife of Hizbullah Fundraiser Sentenced for Citizenship Fraud
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