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| Feds seeking return of Hassan Nemazee's crooked campaign contributions | |
| 2010-07-08 | |
| The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds. More than 100 political committees and charities have been sent letters "advising them that they received the proceeds of fraud," according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court. "Some of these organizations have returned the donated funds; some no longer exist; some have advised that they donated the Nemazee funds to charity upon learning of the defendant's arrest; some have declined to return the funds; and some are in the process of reviewing their records and evaluating the government's request," prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors told the judge that they planned to "promptly provide a further update...with respect to this process." The court papers also allege that Nemazee's wife, Sheila, has been stymieing efforts to sell his $16.5 million Park Avenue co-op, two properties worth about $2.4 million in upstate Katonah and an apartment in Rome and an estate in Puglia, Italy, that Nemazee says he bought for $1.7 million each. Sheila Nemazee -- who continues to live in the plush Park Avenue apartment with her hubby and two of their kids -- claims she is a part-owner of the various properties, for which no payments have been made since Hassan Nemazee was busted last year, the papers say. Nemazee faces nearly 20 years in the slammer next week when he's sentenced for swindling $292 million from Bank of America, Citibank and HSBC. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 What about Crist? |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-07-08 08:15 |