Leader of $1.7M Hamas fundraising scheme bragged about ‘friends’ in NY: feds
Federal prosecutors allege that Hamas media official Saleem Alzaq bragged to an undercover NYPD agent about having numerous friends in New York. Alzaq is accused of leading a $1.7 million fundraising scheme for Hamas.
Saleem Alzaq, who works in Hamas' "media office," boasted that he had “so many” friends in the Big Apple in a 2025 exchange with an undercover NYPD agent over Snapchat, federal prosecutors alleged.
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