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To: Bilow who wrote (199228)	1/7/2007 8:18:47 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi all; Remember the cell phone incident last August when various individuals were found with unnaturally large numbers of cell phones? The terrorism charges were dropped back in August, and the government continued with charges of counterfeiting. I wrote: "I would think that the charges will eventually be dropped, but there will still have been an incredible expense for these guys." I just went to the trouble of looking up what happened to the guys: A federal judge threw out conspiracy and money laundering charges Tuesday against three Texas men who originally were accused of planning terrorism, saying there wasn't enough evidence to bring them to trial. U.S. District Court Magistrate Charles Binder released Louai Othman, 23, his brother Adham Othman, 21, and their cousin Maruan Muhareb, 18, all of Mesquite, Texas, after a preliminary hearing. ... The federal complaint that remained until Tuesday charged that the men defrauded consumers, TracFone Wireless Inc. and Nokia Corp. by buying the prepaid phones and removing TracFone's proprietary software, making it possible to use the handsets with any cellular provider. dallasnews.com -- Carl