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Fifth Column
Leftist Domestic Terrorist Skates After DOJ Intervenes
2022-11-19
[Washington Free Beacon] Urooj Rahman,
...the pouty, connected Pakistani-American who trained with Hamas before studying human rights law at Fordham. Her self-proclaimed best friend, successful Washington, DC lawyer Salmah Rizvi, previously worked for President Obama as an intelligence analyst....
a public interest lawyer who firebombed a police cruiser during the 2020 George Floyd riots, was sentenced to just 15 months in prison on Friday after the Biden Justice Department intervened on her behalf, pressing the court to issue a sentence below the guidelines that called for 10 years.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York handed down the sentence to a packed courtroom in Brooklyn, where Rahman’s allies gathered in solidarity. Rahman, who faced up to five years in prison, told supporters the sentence "wasn’t the result we wanted." Her attorney, Peter Baldwin, said Rahman’s defense team was "obviously disappointed with the result, but we are excited that Urooj can move on to the next phase of her life."

Rahman and her accomplice, Colinford Mattis,
...African-American, Princeton grad, NYU Law, former corporate law associate at some fancy New York City law firm, who along with his sister is the primary caregiver for their dead mother’s three foster children — the things ya gotta do in Brooklyn to keep the family’s rent controlled apartment!
leveraged their connections to top universities, white-shoe law firms, and the Obama administration, to win sympathy from liberal elites. They were the subjects of glowing profiles in national media during their prosecution, and struck a sweetheart deal with the Biden Justice Department, which, in a rare move, intervened to ask the court to go easy on them after the Trump administration had pressed for an aggressive prosecution.
So it's Trump's fault, for being so mean!
The Justice Department declined to comment.

The pair pleaded guilty in June, which qualified them for automatic disbarment. New York officially disbarred them on Tuesday.
Related:
Urooj Rahman: 2022-10-02 Lawyer who threw Molotov cocktail at NYPD car during George Floyd protests says she was drunk and dealing with 'unprocessed trauma' at the time, as she asks for reduced sentence
Urooj Rahman: 2022-06-03 Two New York lawyers who threw Molotov cocktail into a police car during George Floyd protests appear at Brooklyn court to take plea deal which could see them face reduced sentence of less than TWO YEARS in jail
Urooj Rahman: 2022-05-14 NYC: The two far-left lawyers captured on camera carrying out a terrorist firebombing attack during a BLM riot in 2020 have struck a sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors
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