“Without the significant financing that Mr. Granieri could and agreed to provide, the alleged conspiracy would have been impossible,” lawyers allegedly said, claiming the fact that Granieri was not being prosecuted proved the government’s case was an example of anti-black racism, according to Bloomberg. After a February meeting between Ajak and a group of people the indictment defined as “PERSON-4,” “PERSON-5” and “PERSON-3,” the latter of whom was described as a middleman for a New York-based financier, Ajak texted an undercover agent (UC), “We are getting the funding,” While texting the UC from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), who he believed to be the supplier of the weapons, Ajak assured him that the middleman and financier did not know what he planned to do with the weapons.
Author: Robert McGreevy
Published at: 2025-06-25 21:28:00
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