🚨San Diego resident Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi has been arrested for conspiring to provide material to Hamas.
For years, he used his social media accounts and crowdfunding websites to solicit donations from around the world “for humanitarian aid to Gaza.” In reality, Sabassi was raising funds for Hamas.
Sabassi is being charged with terrorism, sanctions-evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and false statements in connection with his efforts to divert funds raised through purported charitable campaigns to Hamas and for personal use.
I recently found out that I share the same first and last name with a 19 year old student at Cornell who is going viral (over ten million views across twitter and other platforms) for anti-Semitic comments that he made (and continues to make) to a prospective-employer.
My social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and law firm email address are being blown up by people understandably angry at this other Austin Franco. None of the posts cross any legal lines, but unfortunately there have been comments and emails talking about me, my firm, my parents, etc.
To make matters worse, the undergraduate looks just enough like me to be confusing, and the NY Post, Fox News, and other publications, have written about it with his image as the article cover.
The bad Austin Franco is continuing to make these statements to media and on social media, so we wanted to go on the record disassociating me and the law firm from him.
I am hoping this post will alleviate some confusion for the general public.
I appreciate all the people who have reached out!
HAIM bandmates and sisters Este Haim, Danielle Haim and Alana Haim have been close with Taylor Swift for more than a decade. Here’s how their friendship came to be. https://t.co/igKVK5mRNY
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Cenk Uygur reveals that he and his nephew Hasan Piker, who once called Jews inbred, are actually both inbred themselves.
"By the way, my grandparents were first cousins. It’s a common cultural practice in Turkey and Muslim countries”
This explains a lot.
“back to friends” has surpassed 1.9 billion streams on Spotify.
— This becomes Sombr’s first song to do so. It should surpass 2B streams in around 36 days.