And they say Muslims don't assimilate to American culture

This dude would have fit right in serving in Congress



‘Most stupid fraud in history’: Illinois man gets 10 years in prison for $14 million fraud tied to COVID-19 loans

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A south suburban man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday in a massive, $14 million fraud scheme where he collected kickbacks for filing more than 1,500 bogus loan applications at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 120-month term handed down to Sharhabeel Shreiteh was believed to be the longest sentence for any case in U.S. District Court in Chicago related to the country’s Paycheck Protection Program, which funded emergency loans designed to give financial relief to small business owners and others during the pandemic but became a hotbed of fraud and abuse.

Shreiteh, 46, buried his face in his hands and wept after U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold announced the sentence, which was at the top of the federal sentencing guidelines and more than three times higher than what the defense requested.

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Of course, he couldn't let go of the multiple wives


Husband behind $14M COVID loan scam bought mansion for another wife he had in the Middle East

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An Illinois tax preparer who helped run a “staggering” $14 million COVID scam used the money to build a mansion for a wife and kids he had in the Palestinian territories — infuriating his other wife in Illinois.

Sharhabeel Shreiteh, 46, received around $740,000 in kickbacks as he helped more than 1,000 people get phony Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in what he admitted to one sidekick was likely the “most stupid fraud in history.”

Shreiteh used his own ill-gotten gains to build a home and a luxury Mercedes car for his wife and their three kids in Palestine — sending his American-based wife of nearly 18 years into a jealous rage, the Chicago Tribune reported.

“You suck!” Hania Atiq Shreiteh, his 52-year-old wife in America, texted him in July 2021 about the money he was sending to his family in his native Palestine.

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Shreiteh’s wife, Hania Atiq Shreiteh, 52, learned of her husband’s secret second spouse in his native Palestine.