http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/story?id=4144185Mark Deli Siljander, a former Republican congressman from Michigan who also served one year as a delegate to the United Nations, is accused of lobbying the Senate Finance Committee to have the Islamic American Relief Agency removed from a list of nonprofit organizations suspected of supporting terrorism. The group has denied that it supports terror.
Siljander, who served in Congress from 1981-87, also allegedly accepted $50,000 in stolen government funds for his lobbying activity. The money, the government says, was stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development by the IARA when the charity's contract with the government was terminated.
According to the indictment, Siljander allegedly lied to FBI agents when he told them in Dec. 2005 that "the payments he had received from the defendant IARA were charitable donations intended to assist him in writing a book about bridging the gap between Islam and Christianity."
This is troubling when a former politician allegedly turns on his own country for his own profit. I hope he gets the maximum penalty for dealing with the enemy if he's found guilty.
