Operator of the company Limo has a history as an FBI informant
Operator of the company Limo has a history as an FBI informant
.NEW YORK - The owner of a limousine company in the accident that killed 20 people was someone who already knew the application of the law, but not in the way he could think.
The company is owned by Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain, according to federal transportation records. Before the tragedy, the authorities knew him better as a paid government informant in the investigation of internal terrorist threats after the September 11 attacks.
Hussain's company, Prestige Limousine, said Monday it is investigating what caused the accident on Saturday in Schoharie, New York, and met with state and federal authorities. A lawyer for the company would not comment further.
In 2009, the government gave credit to Hussain for eradicating radical Muslims in a complicated operation in a mosque in Newburgh, a city in northern New York. At the trial, the jury heard testimony that Hussain posed as a rich representative of a Pakistani terrorist organization.
He drove a BMW and other luxury vehicles provided by the FBI to maintain his coverage. He also made hundreds of hours of videos and audio tapes of the defendants who selected targets for jihad and complained against the Jews. Their cooperation resulted in the conviction of four men in a frustrated plot to attack synagogues and shoot down military aircraft.
But Hussain's work was also attacked by defense lawyers and civil liberties groups as cheating. He was portrayed as a master manipulator who caught a group of nobodies aimlessly and who earned $ 96,000 for his work.
Even US District Judge Colleen McMahon said in the ruling that she was not proud of the government's role in the plot.
"I think that, without a doubt, there would have been no crime here, except that the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to a successful conclusion," McMahon said. She added: "That does not mean there is no crime."
According to his own testimony at the trial, Hussain entered the US for the first time. UU In Texas with his wife and two children in the 1990s and went to Albany, where he received asylum. In April 2003, he was working as a government translator when he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of fraud for helping someone obtain his driver's license illegally.
He obtained a sentence that did not require more jail time working as an FBI informant. In January 2007, he met with the FBI and won an extension of his green card status.
More recently, a failed sting that involved Hussain in Pittsburgh became the subject of a documentary called "(T) error." The objective described on Facebook how, after meeting the informant, he had the "feeling that he had just played a role in a Hollywood movie in which I had been introduced to the leader of a 'terrorist' sleeping cell."
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