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Terrorism task force
freezes ISP accounts
DALLAS (AP) — Citing an
investment from the wife of a
top Hamas political leader, the
Treasury Department has frozen
two bank accounts of a North
Texas Internet service provider
already under investigation by a
federal terrorism task force,
according to a published report.
Arch McColl, an attorney for
InfoCom Corp., told The Dallas
Morning News in a copyright
story for Wednesday’s editions
that the $250,000 annuity
investment by Nadia Elashi
Marzouk in 1993 was the only
explanation the agency gave in a
letter to company owner Bayan
Elashi announcing the decision.
Investor Nadia Marzouk is
married to Moussa Abu
Marzouk, a former U.S. resident
who is now deputy of the Hamas
political bureau in Damascus,
Syria. Since 1995, Marzouk has
been on a Treasury Department
list of specially designated ter
rorists, making his assets sub
ject to seizure.
Hamas is a militant
Palestinian movement blamed
for scores of attacks against sol
diers and civilians in Israel.
McColl said Nadia
Marzouk’s investment was legal
and not connected to finances
from Mousa Marzouk or
Hamas.
“And once he was on the (ter
rorist) list, there was no new
business conducted with him,”
McColl said. “It was the one and
only time.”
Representatives of the FBI in
Dallas and the Treasury
Department in Washington
declined to comment on the
freezing of InfoCom’s assets.
InfoCom was served with the
letter Sept. 5, the same day that
the North Texas Joint Terrorism
Task Force began a three-day
search at the company. The
order affected about $70,000 in
two accounts, another company
attorney said in an interview
three weeks ago.
The letter made no mention
of Hamas, McColl said.
The FBI has declined to give
a reason for the InfoCom raid,
which caused 500 client
Websites worldwide to crash
and prompted criticism of what
some Islamic groups called a
witch hunt. The search warrant
and affidavit used to obtain the
warrant remain under federal
seal.
A federal grand jury has
issued subpoenas for records to
five members of the Elashi fam-
NEWS IN BRIEF
ily and two pro-Palestinian
organizations in Richardson
whose Websites are hosted by
InfoCom, also based in the
North Dallas suburb.
Israel has accused those two
clients, the Islamic Association
for Palestine — described as an
information clearinghouse —
and Holy Land Foundation for
Relief and Development —
which describes itself a charita
ble organization — of being
fronts for Hamas.
Officials of both organiza
tions have said the accusations
are false.
The two nonprofit groups
share officers with InfoCom
Corp.
The Holy Land Foundation’s
board chairman, Ghassan
Elashi, is InfoCom’s vice presi
dent for marketing. The local
chapter president of 1AP is
Basman Elashi, the operations
manager for InfoCom and
younger brother of Ghassan.
Another brother, Bayan
Elashi, is chief executive officer
of InfoCom and technical con
tact for the 1AP and Holy Land
Foundation Web sites and hun
dreds of other Islamic clients in
the United States and the
Middle East.
Texas Department of Insurance
says mold may raise premiums
(AP) — Concerns over mold may soon cause an
increase in insurance premiums already substantially
higher than the standard rates set by state regulators,
according to new premium comparisons by the Texas
Department of Insurance.
A review by the department shows that the vast
majority of insurers have priced their policies higher
than the standard rates, which are supposed to allow
companies to earn a reasonable profit.
Consumer groups say Texans are being charged too
much for homeowners’ insurance, a charge evi
denced earlier by a national study that showed
Texans pay the highest premiums in the country.
“When you have the highest rates in the country, the
rates ought to be coming down, not going up,” said
DJ. Powers of the Center for Economic Justice, which
represents low-income and small-business consumers.
Mentally disabled group left in
van for almost an hour
TYLER (AP) — While their caretakers went shop
ping, a group of mentally disabled people was left
unattended for almost an hour inside a van in East
Texas.
“The windows were up and the van was not running
so there was no air conditioning,” said Chris Moore,
Tyler police spokesman. “A lady observed a bunch of
handicapped people sitting inside.”
The group — clients of the Evergreen Presbyterian
Ministries — was traveling from Kilgore to the East
Texas State Fair when their chaperones stopped to
shop Saturday, reports show.
The pair had been shopping for more than 40 min
utes when police arrived, witnesses said. No one was
injured. The high temperature was 83, records show.
Linda Hawkins, director of Evergreen Presbyterian
Ministries, said the staff members at the center of the
welfare concern were relieved of their duties.
Bankruptcy judge voids ruling
denying Smith’s inheritance
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Playboy model Anna
Nicole Smith won a victory in federal court as a bank
ruptcy judge voided a Texas court’s decision that had
declared her ineligible for a $474 million inheritance.
Judge Samuel Bufford agreed Tuesday with Smith’s
claim that the Texas judgment violated federal laws,
said Philip Boesch, an attorney representing Smith.
Smith has been battling in the courts for the right to
claim an inheritance from her late husband, J. Howard
Marshall II. His son, E. Pierce Marshall, has argued
that Smith has no claim to the oil tycoon’s estate.
In December, Bufford finalized a previous ruling
awarding Smith $474 million from the estate. E.
Pierce Marshall then filed new claims in Texas and a
jury found that Smith had no claim to the estate.
Tuesday’s ruling voided that decision.
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artists
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find it difficulty
afford the capita
AUSTIN (AP) - IS
Texas capital may also
known as the “Live Mu
Capital of the World,” bu
new report says musicians
no longer afford to live in r
city.
"The music industn
Austin is threatened by e
effects of the overall econo-
ic success it has helped toe:
ate,” according to a repon
Texas Perspectives, an e,
nomic consulting firm.
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years of grumbling fra
musicians about how hare
has become to live and playi
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$616 million per year is
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vides 11,200 jobs, the rep?
said. The industry also ta
made the city more uttm
to those that fueled Ceitl
Texas’ high-tech boomina
1990s.
But the boom also tool,
toll on the music scent
according to the report.
Higher rents pushed m
cians away from the city,d
skyrocketing proper
appraisals squeezed venua
Several long-standing cli
including Liberty Lunchi
the Electric Lounge, k
closed in the past two years j
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owners) I talked to arei
ing on by the skin of
teeth." said Jon Hoctops
managing director dhu .
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Paul Minor, a musician
who moved to Austin in
said the city has failedtocon-
trol rising rents or helpstm
gling venues. He said k
hopes the stumbling econon.
will bring some relief.
“If the high-tech indusr
goes south, maybe it jit
means there will be affordak
housing for musicians again
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The City Council i
October will discuss tl
report, which suggests the®
consider providing incentivi
for the building of downta
music venues.
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