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U.S. v. SEDAGHATY

No. 11-30342.

728 F.3d 885 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pirouz SEDAGHATY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 23, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven T. Wax (argued), Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR; Lawrence Matasar , Lawrence Matasar, P.C., Portland, OR, for Defendant-Appellant.

Kelly A. Zusman (argued), Christopher Cardani , and Charles Franklin Gorder, Jr. , Assistant United States Attorneys, Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon; Virginia Marie Vander Jagt , Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Opinion by Judge McKeown; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Tallman.

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This is a tax fraud case that was transformed into a trial on terrorism. The case stems from charges that Pirouz Sedaghaty (known as Pete Seda) falsified a 2000 charitable organization tax return in order to conceal his support of an independence movement in Chechnya, a republic in the Caucasus mountains of southern Russia. Seda founded the U.S. branch of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. ("Al-Haramain"), a Saudi Arabian...

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