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FBI tries to deport Muslim man for refusing to be an informant

After Imam Foad Farahi declined to become a federal informant, the government tried to destroy him.

By Trevor Aaronson
Oct 8, 2009

Unholy War: FBI tries to deport North Miami Beach imam Foad Farahi for refusing to be an informant
Religious Conviction

Judge José E. Martinez ruled on a contentious case involving the Archdiocese of Miami. Problem is, he's a Eucharistic minister

By Trevor Aaronson
Oct 12, 2006

On October 24, 2004, following a six-day trial in federal court, Ofelia Canals won a major victory against her former employer and one of the most powerful institutions in South Florida: the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. A jury believed her contention that archdiocesan officials asked her to commit perjury...
Osama’s Thug

Jose Padilla is (a) a punk; (b) a terrorist in training; (c) an unwitting pawn for Uncle Sam and al-Qaeda; or (d) all of the above

By Trevor Aaronson
Oct 5, 2006

On June 25, 1995, Adham Amin Hassoun, a computer programmer, talked on the phone from his home in Sunrise to Kassem Daher, head of the Canadian Islamic Association: "Our friend in the first region ... has opened up a soccer field over there because there are matches.... He wants only...
Death Do Us Part

A murder-suicide left Hialeah Gardens in shock. There were warning signs.

By Trevor Aaronson
Aug 24, 2006

News of the shooting came as a shock in Hialeah Gardens. One of the city's veteran police officers, 41-year-old Robert Gomez, and his fiancée, 33-year-old Martha Bernet, were killed June 26 in their home on NW 126th Terrace. It was a murder-suicide, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department, which was...
Classroom Felon, Part 2

Former AG Bob Butterworth has a double standard for felons

By Trevor Aaronson
Aug 10, 2006

At St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens, felons can teach criminal law. They just can't study it. On July 13, Miami New Times reported that St. Thomas had hired its criminal law professor, Steve Clark, a former Arkansas attorney general, despite a 1990 felony theft conviction for...

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