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Exclusive: Breaking 9-11 scandal
Feds knew about 9-11 bribery conspiracy before attacks
by Tom Flocco
ORLANDO, FL -- Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Posted 1:30 PM EDT -- TomFlocco.com -- Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider is naming names, revealing that former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen knew before the September 11 attacks that U.S. immigration officials were bribed by an illegal Moroccan Muslim allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden’s half-brother. This according to Schneider, who was told about the illegal alien's ties to terrorism by outside informant Bonnie Sharrit.
Khalil bin Laden was allowed to leave the country after 9-11 via a documented 140-person multi-flight Saudi airlift through the auspices of the White House who declined to hold Khalid as a material witness despite his suspicious connections to the Tri-Border frontier region of Brazil--known for evidence of terrorism--but also Khalil's inquiries to informant Bonnie Sharrit about bringing in Arabs from Saudi Arabia and Brazil to attend a Florida flight school.
The Sharrit’s informant daughter Christine later revealed that a Muslim named Lyazid Abad had previously lived with alleged hijacker Mohamed Atta--a fact not lost on the Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Division (DOD-CID) who questioned Christine Sharrit--Abad’s wife--immediately after 9-11, indicating U.S. officials knew about Abad’s and Atta’s movements prior to the attacks. But the government now wants Lyazid Abad immediately deported from the U.S. and away from a potential grand jury.
According to records from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida--but also our phone calls to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Court public affairs office--on June 15 the Department of Homeland Security moved to deport illegal Moroccan Muslim Lyazid Abad after an exclusive May 26, 2004 TomFlocco.com story was posted in which Schneider implicated Abad in a sham marriage bribery conspiracy allegedly linked to Mohamed Atta, Khalil bin Laden and the 3,000 death mass murder on 9-11. [Mary Schneider vs. John Ascroft & James Ziglar, Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)]
This morning, U.S. Immigration Court public affairs officer Susan Eastwood called TomFlocco.com to confirm that Lyazid Abad had been ordered deported on June 15, raising serious questions as to why the government is suddenly deporting Abad--given his alleged ties to Atta and bin Laden.
In 1998--five years after the first World Trade Center attack, Bonnie Sharrit told Schneider she had copies of two $1,500 Tampa bank money orders purchased by Abad and made out to Orlando immigration supervisors Susan Dugas and Stella Jarina to allegedly bribe them for a green card.
Dugas and Jarina then kept Abad's case locked in their offices without action or denial of green card for the next six years. While his application remained pending, this allowed Abad to live, work and travel freely in the U.S., allegedly continuing an al Qaeda terrorist cell support system in central Florida for Atta and others.
But Schneider also told TomFlocco.com in a series of interviews that she advised all government officials named in this story that immigration officials surreptitiously removed felony fraud case files from her office after hours, took her official case notes detecting felony activity just prior to approving illegal Muslims for green cards with ensuing U.S. citizenship, destroyed incriminating video tape evidence, arranged for a counterfeit search warrant to be served to coerce key evidence from informants, and that she personally witnessed with other office staff the shredding of seven years of official daily interview logs so no audit could take place regarding the immigration violations.
Schneider’s letters and faxes to the 9-11 Commission have also met with no response or request to hear her testimony--either in public or in private.
A court-designated whistleblower with federal protection, Schneider added that prior to the 9-11 attacks she contacted Ashcroft six times--including February, March, April, and August 9, 2001--32 days before the attacks, Freeh ten times, Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Glen Fine seven times--including December 26, 2000 and August 9, 2001, Mueller once--August 9, 2001, but also members of Congress to report that U.S. immigration officials took monetary bribes to assure green cards for illegal Muslims, which facilitated their ability to remain in the U.S. to develop terrorist support networks.
The Sharrits told Schneider that Lyazid Abad had lived with Atta and other Arabs in a central Florida apartment while engaging with other nationals in felony fraud sham marriages to remain in the country; but the Sharrits told Schneider that Abad was also associated with Khalil bin Laden who owns a 20-acre estate in Winter Garden--just minutes from Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
A former contract security officer in the Orlando immigration office confirmed what appeared to be evidence of ongoing bribery of federal officials after 9-11 according to Schneider: "The security officer told my attorney Donald Appignani and me that on at least 25 different occasions, aliens appearing for their green card interviews were found to have in their possession sums of cash in the amounts of $5,000 to $8,000 which were brought into the offices of immigration officials here in Orlando."
Within three months after this issue was addressed in the February, 2003 court deposition of Orlando immigration supervisor Susan Dugas in Schneider vs. Ashcroft & Zigler, the security officer was relocated from the Orlando office after reporting the incidents. The FBI, INS, senators and congressmen with full knowledge failed to take any action to stop the bribery.
Schneider said she contacted U.S. Senators more than one year before the attacks about the allegations linked to Abad and Khalil bin Laden--including Bob Graham (D-FL), Trent Lott (R-TX), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), but also Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Joe Scarborough (former Florida Republican congressman and current MSNBC host), Walter Jones (R-NC), Harold Rogers (D-KY), Corrine Brown (D-FL), John Mica (R-FL), Bill McCollum (former Florida Republican congressman and current U.S. Senate candidate), former Florida congressional Republicans Charles Canady (R-FL) and Tillie Fowler (R-FL), Lamar Smith, (R-TX) Dan Burton (R-IN) and David Weldon (R-FL).
Besides multiple contacts with the FBI, INS and Congress before the attacks, Schneider also sent letters since 9-11 to all members of both the Senate and House Permanent Select Intelligence Committees who have ignored and thus far failed to respond to her pleas for action to remove the terrorist cells.
This, as Byron York of National Review Online (9-11-2002) quoted FBI spokesman Bill Carter: "Unless you have evidence to stop them from leaving the country [Khalil bin Laden and other family members who the White House failed to hold as material witnesses--allowing them to leave the U.S. days after the attacks], they have every right to do that," Carter explained.
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"In June, 1998, I came in for work and found that the box in my office safe was damaged and my computer was illegally tampered with," Mary Schneider told TomFlocco.com." She continued: "the only individuals with access to the combination were my supervisors Susan Dugas and Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Stella Jarina."
"The following morning outside informant Bonnie Sharrit phoned me to inquire why I had been giving my name and leaving harassing phone messages on their home answering machine for the past few months. I denied making the calls; and as we continued to converse, Bonnie said it was not my voice on the machine, but she provided me with the phone number on their caller-ID," said Schneider.
"I informed her that the phone calls were originating from the Orlando immigration inspections booth," said Schneider, adding "within a week the Sharrits and their daughter Christine met with me to discuss their case involving Christine’s Moroccan husband."
"While I had never met the Sharrits prior to Bonnie calling my office, Bonnie and Ed Sharrit told me their daughter had married an illegal Moroccan Muslim named Lyazid Abad, who I later discovered had lived with Mohamed Atta before marrying their daughter Christine," the immigrations official told us.
Schneider continued, "When the Sharrits returned home, Abad verbally attacked them, stating he knew they had been meeting with me because ‘Supervisor Susan’ [Dugas] had phoned him," adding "Bonnie Sharrit had already told me that she and her husband had seen copies of money orders purchased by Lyazid Abad in the amounts of $1,500 drawn on a Tampa bank and made out to my supervisors Susan Dugas and Stella Jarina."
The Sharrits also told Schneider they discovered that Abad was in possession of Orlando INS Officer-in-Charge Stella Jarina's private personal phone number, when Schneider herself did not have Jarina's personal number after working with her for 18 months.
"I immediately reported these criminal activities to Director John Chase’s Office of Internal Audit (OIA) at INS Headquarters. I spoke to Supervisor Domenic Wazielewski, reporting the felony impersonation of a federal officer via harassing phone calls to the Sharrits, extreme security violation in accessing my assigned, numbered document approval stamp, illegal access to my combination safe, illegal access to my computer and the bribery of my office supervisors," said Schneider.
"This was all documented by government memoranda--faxed and mailed to OIA and dated June 23, 1998; but within two weeks Director John Chase authorized his agent Dalton (Dale) McIntosh to fly to Orlando to investigate me on a bogus complaint filed by an alien in a sham marriage who I did not approve for a green card. And I was investigated even though the video tape of the interview provided advance evidence exonerating me of his trumped charges," said Schneider, adding "McIntosh’s trip expense was an abuse of U.S. taxpayer funds."
She continued, "Before McIntosh’s arrival in Orlando, he made harassing phone calls from INS Headquarters in Washington, DC to Bonnie Sharrit at her home, Ed Sharrit at his office and myself at the INS office," offering further that "when McIntosh came into my office to interrogate me, he ordered me to turn off my tape recorder--but I refused, accusing him of violating the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act."
"When I refused to turn off the tape recorder for my protection, McIntosh brought in my OIC Stella Jarina who ordered me to turn it off under threat of termination from federal service. But I refused to do so, even as her hands shook so profusely that she could barely write, and the union steward with me witnessed the whole thing; so McIntosh then refused to conduct the interrogation since I continued to tape him for the record," said Schneider.
"The next morning, McIntosh failed to meet with informants Bonnie and Ed Sharrit at his hotel lobby--an appointment he had arranged and for which the Sharrits had both taken time off from work. He never contacted them, canceled or left them a message, thus helping to suppress evidence regarding a bribery conspiracy linked to Lyazid Abad, Mohamed Atta and Khalil bin Laden," said Schneider.
"I personally appeared at the FBI’s Orlando office in July, 1998 and handed letters and information about the bribery conspiracy to duty agent Wendy Evans," adding "the FBI never contacted me before September 11, 2001 or since the attacks."
Fake search warrant served to confiscate incriminating evidence
"I later found out that Dalton McIntosh at the INS had aligned himself with Orlando FBI agent Evans, adding "in October, 1998 Bonnie was prepared to play the tape of the inspector impersonating me so I could identify the voice of whoever had been harassing her," said Schneider.
"However--before Bonnie had the opportunity to play the tape for me--within one week, she was served with a counterfeit search warrant to confiscate the answering machine tape recording of the INS inspector who impersonated me, but also ‘any communication from Mary Schneider,’ " said the Orlando INS adjudications officer.
Believing that Schneider and the Sharrits had been placed under electronic surveillance by the FBI and the INS because they were about to expose criminal activities--some with terrorist implications involving both agencies, TomFlocco.com asked Schneider to elaborate on how a fake warrant could be issued and who may have served it on Sharrit:
"On October 19, 1998--the day of the incident, Bonnie called me extremely upset, describing the ordeal in detail through her tears, while later revealing that she had learned that a judge had called for an investigation into who forged a signature for issuance of a search warrant," said Schneider, relating curiously, "after the warrant was served, FBI agent Wendy Evans appeared at her door."
After the phone message evidence was confiscated, Bonnie Sharrit revealed to Schneider that she was told to "forget about the briberies and keep quiet."
Schneider told us "in July, 1998, I contacted the Ft. Lauderdale DOJ Inspector General’s office (OIG), and gave Special Agent-in-Charge Alan Hazen all the information, letters, and memos involving the bribery conspiracy, but also a list of dozens of fraud cases surreptitiously removed from my office. But no action was taken for seven months."
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"Several days after this warning Dugas and Jarina ordered college intern Kerri Bell-Yeager to shred seven years of official daily interview log sheets recording which aliens had been interviewed, their case number, and the disposition of the case--for example those that I had continued in order to pursue fraud."
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"In February, 1999 two DOJ-OIG agents came to Orlando, spoke briefly with me, and then met with Bonnie and Ed Sharrit; but they refused to take copies of the bribery money orders purchased by the illegal Morrocan Muslim Lyazid Abad which were made out to my supervisors, Dugas and Jarina. The Sharrits were outraged that as informants, the OIG treated them as if they were the criminals," Schneider told us.
Schneider added "during this time frame, INS-OIA Special Agent Dalton McIntosh left the Sharrits an ominous voice mail: ‘We are in the process of removing Mary Schneider from her duties, and we need your help.’ "
"Within weeks of this incident, in March, 1999, the OIG gave advance notice and warning to my supervisors, Susan Dugas and Stella Jarina, that they were to be questioned about briberies," said Schneider, continuing, "several days after this warning Dugas and Jarina ordered college intern Kerri Bell-Yeager to shred seven years of official daily interview log sheets recording which aliens had been interviewed, their case number, and the disposition of the case--for example those that I had continued in order to pursue fraud."
"I personally witnessed the destruction of these vital records along with other staff members--also involving a Caribbean national bribery ring reported to me by informant Marcien Gerard Jean, who knew the conspirators arranging sham marriages in another ring who personally told him they had someone inside the INS office helping them," said Schneider, adding "I haven’t talked to him since. He suddenly disappeared."
The Orlando chat room
At the time of the shredding in March, 1999, Bonnie Sharrit informed me about Orlando-area participants in an active AOL chat room which also named my supervisors [Dugas and Jarina] as participants in sham marriage immigration bribery. Two months later, on May 23, 1999, that same chat room continued to discuss the bribery involving Dugas and Jarina, but also Nancy Abernathy who was then an assistant to Congressman Bill McCollum (R-FL)," she said.
The chat room confirmed Schneider’s and the Sharrit’s concerns for National Security, because the illegal Muslims’ bribery of U.S. immigration officials was also supporting an Al Qaeda terrorist cell involving Egyptian Ihab Ali, who was identified as one of Osama bin Laden’s trusted lieutenants--but also his former pilot.
Schneider added "Even after the Sharrits exposed the illegal activities of Lyazid Abad in June, 1998 and after May, 1999, when Orlando, Florida taxi driver Egyptian Ihab Ali was arrested for organizing the U.S. Embassy bombings, the Orlando AOL chat room confirmed that U.S. immigration officials were allegedly taking bribes from illegal Muslims for green cards--individuals who were reportedly assisting Al Qaeda and Ihab Ali within the Orlando terrorist support network."
Schneider had repeatedly informed high government officials about the illegal activities; but Lyazid Abad was never denied a green card. Now the government is deporting him.
The Egyptian Ihab Ali was arrested by the FBI and brought to New York City around May, 1999; and in October, 2000, the Orlando taxi driver’s cover was blown in court testimony because federal official linked the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania to Ali when his name was found in a letter from Ali to a U.S. Army sergeant with ties to al Qaeda in California.
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