Sam Ribakoff reports:
A man who distributed bugged phones to Colombian drug traffickers and money launderers as part of a bizarre international FBI sting operation was sentenced to over five years in prison for racketeering and conspiracy in a San Diego federal courtroom.
“Your honor, I want to say sorry to my family,” said Osemah Elhassen during Friday’s hearing. “I was naive and I lost everything.”
Elhassen is the first of 17 defendants to be sentenced in a RICO case revolving around Anom, a company that advertised its phones and an accompanying messaging app as being encrypted and safe enough for criminals around the world to use to discreetly coordinate a panoply of illegal acts.
But Anom was bugged by the FBI from the start.
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