A career Department of Justice prosecutor on January 21 dismissed a criminal case against a major Democrat donor alleged to have engaged in a $150 million fraud involving a green-energy firm, The Daily Wire has learned. The dismissal came one day after President Donald Trump took office, but before he could install his own U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.
Ibrahim AlHusseini, who has fashioned himself an environmentalist star and Hollywood playboy, gave more than $300,000 to Democrats and was a lead investor in a “socially conscious” finance firm backed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio called Aspiration Inc. The longtime CodePink board member had been heralded as proof that “reversing the climate crisis can be profitable.” But the FBI said AlHusseini falsified financial documents to inflate their value by nearly $200 million.
AlHusseini was arrested at the Los Angeles airport on October 7 and held in jail due to the “serious risk [the] defendant will flee” after his alleged victim said he’d transferred $300 million to his native Saudi Arabia. He was released in December because wealthy environmentalists, including the co-founder of CodePink, Jodie Evans, put up their homes as his bail.
But Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally used the window between the resignation of Joe Biden’s U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California and the installation of Trump’s replacement, which has not yet occurred, to make the case go away without explanation.
A one-paragraph filing said “the Acting United States Attorney having moved for a dismissal of the complaint by the presentment of this Order, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that said Complaint be dismissed as to defendant IBRAHIM AMEEN ALHUSSEINI only without prejudice and that … bond, if any, be exonerated.” […]
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