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W. Phila. imam gets 8 years for selling guns to informant
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 03/01/07 | MICHAEL HINKELMAN
Posted on 03/01/2007 6:26:38 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
West Philadelphia imam was sentenced yesterday to eight years and four months in a federal slammer for selling handguns and assault rifles without a license to an FBI informant who he thought was a drug dealer.
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage ordered Wayne Hogue, 48, also known as "Imam Wadir," to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on April 30.
Hogue is an imam of the 52nd Street Mosque in West Philadelphia, prosecutors said --snip-- One of the transactions - involving a handgun loaded with six live rounds of ammo - took place inside Hogue's office at the mosque, prosecutors said
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"'The Bishop' taunts with letters, dud pipe bombs"
POSTED: 9:10 p.m. EST, March 1, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Postal inspectors are offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information. The investigation also includes the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local law enforcement agencies.
Spokesmen for the FBI and the Postal Inspection Service would not comment in any detail on the investigation.
Burton said some of Stratfor's financial clients asked his firm to investigate in 2005 after The Bishop began sending threatening letters from various Midwestern states, including Wisconsin and Iowa.
Burton, who said he has many sources within law enforcement, wrote in a weekly terrorism report last month that the letters have become increasingly threatening."