Ghassan Elashi

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Ghassan Elashi was a founder of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and was a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Mr. Elashi was also vice president of InfoCom Corporation of Richardson, Texas, indicted along with Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook.[1] InfoCom, an Internet company shared personnel, office space, and board members with the HLF. The two organizations were formed in California around the same time, and both received seed money from Hamas leader Marzook.[2] Elashi was arrested in December 2002 for conspiracy, money laundering, and dealing in the property of a designated terrorist. In 2005, Elashi and two of his brothers were convicted on 21 counts of federal terrorism charges related to funding Hamas and the illegal export of electronics equipment to U.S. State Department-designated state sponsors of terrorism. [3] Elashi was sentenced on Oct 13 2006 to 7 years in prison for doing business with a terrorist (funnelling money to Hamas throughout the the past 10 years.) [4]