Huma Abedin's cousin convicted of fraud

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Greg
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Huma Abedin's cousin convicted of fraud

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http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/28/humas ... ng-emails/

Pretty big time fraud, in league with a Russian real estate type.

I'm not 100% sure it's the same guy, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that I went to high school with that guy's brother.

Who is also being prosecuted for big time fraud.

Even if he isn't the same guy I went to HS with, he lived in the same town in NJ as me. I had no idea, but with a little research.... I know where his house is, I've *seen* it, used to drive past it all the time. (It's on a ridge overlooking a road I drove on almost every day. Yes it's an 850k house, nothing really special for that town.)

Disturbingly small world.

One odd thing, if this guy (the brother) is the same guy, his family is immigrants from Pakistan. Yet he and the brother are cousins to Huma, whose family is Egyptian.

Anyway, the fraud guy is cousins with Huma, and his Russian partner is a close associate (IIRC) of Marc Rich, buddies with Bubba. Very, very incestious.
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Re: Huma Abedin's cousin convicted of fraud

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To clarify, the guy who was just convicted is Omar. He has a brother named Irfan, who is also being prosecuted for big time fraud.

I went to high school with an Irfan.

How common a name is that? (The full name, I left out the last name.) There's a fair amount of other circumstantial evidence that the two Irfans are the same guy.

The one I went to HS with was a sweet kid, very smart but charming in a very disarming mildly self-deprecating way. He had a few odd, bordering on goofy, quirks. He also would, on occasion, joke that Pakistanis were all hopelessly crazy and not to be trusted. We actually laughed at that one, especially considering who was saying it (and his utter, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man level harmlessness). Hmmmmm.
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Re: Huma Abedin's cousin convicted of fraud

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You have an exciting, but somewhat disconcerting, circle of acquaintance. ;)
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