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...So is he just a zealous Democratic Party supporter with deep pockets?
Not quite. This may be the part Goodman [Amy Goodman of the Marxist Democracy Now! network] was reluctant to talk about. Nemazee, you see, has a dark secret: he’s a terrorist sympathizer.
Nemazee is a Board of Trustees member with the Asia Society, an organization sympathetic to the oppressive, terrorism-sponsoring Islamic fundamentalist regime of Iran. The Asia Society has gone on record as “recommending that the United States declare an end to President Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and negotiate with Taliban members willing to separate from Al Qaeda.”
He was a past board member of the American-Iranian Council, a U.S. lobbying group that has consistently supported lifting U.S. sanctions on Iran and accommodating the Tehran regime.
He is also a founding board member of the Iranian American Political Action Committee [IAPAC], which seeks to create friendly and lucrative business relationships with the Iranian theocracy ruling that country.
Nemazee, whose bail has been set at $25 million (secured by his $20 million New York City Apartment), faces a maximum prison term of 30 years.
Now that the Democrats–who have been the major recipients of Nemazee’s largesse–are running the show, it should be interesting to watch this saga play out.
------------- "Hassan Nemazee: Terrorist Sympathizer; Arrested Democratic Fundraiser’s Pro-Taliban, Pro-Iran Agenda," From David Horowitz NEWSREAL:2009 August 27, http://newsrealblog.com/2009/08/27/arrested-democratic-fundraisers-other-agenda/ 73 posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:06:06 PM by thouworm | To 72

“$292 million in forfeiture in the case.” The indictment also seeks $292 million in forfeiture against Nemazee. In addition, the indictment identifies Nemazee’s interest in the following assets as subject to forfeiture: five real properties, 16 corporate entities and one hedge fund, 14 securities accounts, 32 bank accounts, a 2008 Maserati Quattroporte, and a 2007 Cessna aircraft. “For more than ten years, Hassan Nemazee projected the illusion of wealth, stealing more than $290 million so that he could lead a lavish lifestyle and play the part of heavyweight political fundraiser,” said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara who is, ironically, a former top aide of another major recipient of Nemazee’s lucre, Senator Chuck Schumer. “Today’s indictment exposes the sheer brazenness of Nemazee’s schemes and marks the end of his decade of deception.” ---------http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/Feds_Clinton_donor_made_contributions_from_Ponzi_scheme_proceeds.html