from the apparently-it-wasn't-clean-enough dept.
US woman used bitcoin to move cash to Islamic State, police say
A New York woman has been accused of laundering bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and wiring the money to help the so-called Islamic State. Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, was charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering and is being held without bail.
Ms Shahnaz was born in Pakistan and worked as a lab technician in the US. Prosecutors say she took out fraudulent loans of $85,000 (£63,000) in order to buy the bitcoin online.
From the DoJ press release:
"Syria is a perilous and violent war-torn country, but the subject in this investigation was allegedly so determined to assist ISIS that she planned a covert, illegal entry into Syria," stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney. "On top of which, she allegedly tried to launder virtual currency to bolster terrorists' dwindling financial support. The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force kept this woman from her dangerous and potentially deadly goal. We will do all we can to stop the next person hoping to do the same. We want to thank our law enforcement partners Suffolk County Police Department, with whom we worked this case side-by-side."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:46PM (3 children)
We simply can't make a dent in the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 15 2017, @11:06PM
But, but, but - DAS RACISSSSSS!! Isn't it?
Everybody in the world fucks to much, except Euros and Americans, doesn't that give all them fuckers some kinda right to come here and take what we have? Well, doesn't it? Shouldn't we just roll over, and allow everyone to take our jobs, our homes, our wimminz, and whatever else they want?
From my point of view, if we don't have the balls to stand up and say "NO", then we deserve whatever we get. I've said before, when we find an illegal alien, we should sterilize him/her, and send that alien back where it came from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @11:09PM
Don't forget part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFPKNdYFkE [youtube.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 16 2017, @02:26AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:52PM (7 children)
However that is answered, we obviously fucked up.
Just yesterday, soylentnews had an article about running out of jobs for people.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/14/0122256 [soylentnews.org]
So, we bring in more people with low qualifications while we're seeing automation take the simple jobs away? Just exactly who does this benefit? People coming in from the 3rd world are pushing wages down in the USA. Don't we want a living wage? Instead of trying to mandate a living wage, maybe we could stop driving wages down in the first place.
There is zero reason to believe that a person like her would, on average, be beneficial to the average American.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:56PM
Wimminz are good for sum fuk for the patriarchy, and rarely commit violent crimes. She couldn't even do this crap right. FIB has all the coins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:57PM (5 children)
dey turk ur jerbs! (tukur jerb)!
We should only allow good God fearin' (and hopefully) white folk enter this country because that was really what the founding fathers wanted; white utopia or whitopia!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @10:26PM (2 children)
Don't need white folk. Don't need black folk. Don't need any -- we have a populated land and no shortage of uteruses.
Got a hatred for whites? OK, then chew on this: of all the people in the USA, black people are hurt most by immigration. They are the first to lose jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @10:39PM (1 child)
Got that right. Regions popular with Latino immigrants have them working the low level service jobs. In other places, it's blacks doing those jobs.
It's replacement citizens. And why? Perhaps it is greater work ethic among the illegal immigrants and willingness to put up with BS. Perhaps it is because many blacks have been routed through the justice system, and personnel managers, insurance companies, and government regulations require an undocumented legal history to hire someone.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 15 2017, @10:50PM
In California's case, more like welfare votes paid for with taxpayer dollars. Everybody knows that Latinos vote only for handouts regardless of whether or not they are politically conservative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @10:43PM
Hey retard - it isn't about white or black, it isn't even about "god-fearing". It's about idiots like you welcoming enemies of our nation into our country. Let me repeat what the other AC said - we have no shortage of people, so WTF are we allowing outsiders to come in, and take our jobs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @10:46PM
Why do you hate America?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:59PM
(Wikipedia [wikipedia.org])
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 15 2017, @10:51PM (4 children)
https://nypost.com/2014/07/20/newburgh-four-terrorism-case-was-fbi-entrapment-hbo-film/ [nypost.com]
By all accounts, none of the Newburg four were smart enough to tie their own shoes, let alone plan a terror operation.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-is-manufacturing-terrorism-cases-2016-6 [businessinsider.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday December 15 2017, @11:00PM
There's no way to know. In so [theintercept.com] many [theintercept.com] ways [theintercept.com], the FBI is the agency that cried wolf.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Saturday December 16 2017, @12:01AM (1 child)
I confirmed that your quote from Business Insider [businessinsider.com] was accurate:
Can't we at least get a whole week's data on this? If it was 67% of Thursday's investigations, that's one thing. What about Wedneday? Or even last weekend?
Okay, The New York Times [nytimes.com] (which is what BI was paraphrasing) says:
That makes a bit more sense. Perhaps our editors could offer some help to Business Insider. It seems like they could use it.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @07:02PM
That shows more competence than I've come to expect from out anti-terrorist activities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @07:32PM
The fbi's main job is to create fake terrorists/mass shooters. Of course, it should be easy enough to find idiots like this without having to create them.