Area pizza joint tied to mercenary in Afghanistan (Hayward)

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Hayward man wired money to U.S. bounty hunter who ran a torture camp
By Matt O'Brien, STAFF WRITER



HAYWARD — A bounty hunter on a rogue quest to kill Osama bin Laden received illegal money transfers wired through a Hayward pizza parlor, a federal agency revealed Friday.
Local restaurateur Noor Alocozy, owner of Liberty Pizza on West A Street, illegally transferred $1 million out of the country between 2002 and 2003, some of which reached Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a jailed American mercenary accused of running his own private interrogation camp in Afghanistan.

"(Idema) was a customer. He was one of this man Alocozy's clients," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which spent two years investigating Alocozy's Hayward-based money transmitting business, Noor Money Transfer, which operated out of the pizza parlor.

"These kinds of financial establishments don't operate within the rules. They don't approve the transactions as licensed operators are supposed to," Kice said. "That makes them an attractive option for people who are trying to move large sums of money around that don't want to be in law enforcement's radar." <snip>

http://insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2810022

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Pizza:

Terrah's food choice.

[sasquatch]

2. Man, it really is the Bush Crime Family

I think they let Georgie porgie watch too many Soprano's episodes at night.

[DBoon]

3. Does the Patriot Act

require that pizza places hand over their customer lists to Homeland Security?

Maybe I should stick to Chinese take-out.