Courthouse News
A man who distributed bugged phones to Colombian drug traffickers and money launderers as part of a bizarre international FBI sting operation was sentenced to over five years in prison for racketeering and conspiracy in a San Diego federal courtroom.
“Your honor, I want to say sorry to my family,” said Osemah Elhassen during Friday’s hearing. “I was naive and I lost everything.”
Elhassen is the first of 17 defendants to be sentenced in a RICO case revolving around Anom, a company that advertised its phones and an accompanying messaging app as being encrypted and safe enough for criminals around the world to use to discreetly coordinate a panoply of illegal acts.
But Anom was bugged by the FBI from the start. More
A man is known by the company he keeps.
When do we start the Fast and Furious arrests?
I was thinking this evening, maybe this is how the FBI keeps the cartels from killing this guy and it’s all for show. He might stand out a bit too much to go into the standard witness protection program.
If not and this guy goes into general population, I doubt he’ll serve out his sentence.
A man who distributed bugged phones to Colombian drug traffickers and money launderers as part of a bizarre international FBI sting operation was set up by the FBI.
It’s still not as good as the agers caper.
^^^^Pagers
I’m an old guy, so I guess it’s fitting that my “p” doesn’t always work when I want it to.
^^^ Or it works when you DON’T want it to…
Agreed, it’s one of the more annoying problems of getting older.