To: peter michaelson who wrote (2976 ) 12/5/2006 11:41:45 PM From: ravenseye Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5673 You should be asking "them" your questions. btw, you may want to consider the following when doing so ... Counterterrorism White Paper Department of Justice Counterterrorism Section June 22, 2006 ... see pdf page 19 of 69 ...Our terrorism financing strategy reflects our expanded exploitation of intelligence information and our focused efforts to utilize all techniques and legal authorities available to cut off funding sources. The tools used in terrorist financing investigations are the standard, see pdf page 20 of 69 time-tested techniques used by the government to ferret out and redress white-collar crime. For this reason, terrorist financing investigations occasionally result in the discovery of nonterrorism plots which lead to significant criminal prosecutions. For example, shortly after September 11, prosecutors focused on public allegations that the 9/11 attacks were foreshadowed by massive aberrational investment patterns in the worldwide capital markets, a phenomenon that would have indicated advance knowledge of the plot and an effort to profit from it. Although the prosecutors ultimately found no evidence of these systemic investment patterns, their efforts did uncover a securities fraud plot to take strategic investment advantage of law enforcement information contained in FBI files. The investigation of that plot resulted in the successful prosecution of Amr Elgindy and others: • Amr Elgindy, Jeffrey Royer, Troy Peters, Jonathan Dawes, Lynn Wingate, Derrick Cleveland and Robert Hansen were charged in the Eastern District of New York with RICO conspiracy, insider trading, and conspiracies involving securities fraud and obstruction of justice, among other charges, in a case involving stock market manipulation and obstruction of justice which began as an investigation into whether foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks resulted in capital market manipulation. Two of the defendants, Cleveland and Hansen, pled guilty and testified against Elgindy and Royer. On January 24, 2005, the jury returned a verdict, convicting Elgindy of racketeering, securities fraud and extortion, and convicting Royer of racketeering, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. Wingate also pled guilty and Peters awaits trial. On June 19, 2006, Elgindy was sentenced to 108 months in prison on these charges and an additional 27 consecutive months on a separate indictment for false statements and committing an offense while on release. Other examples of successful terrorism financing prosecutions include:10 • In the Northern District of Illinois,...trac.syr.edu