'San Diego' Man Faces Terrorism, Fraud Charges Over Alleged Sham Gaza Charity

'San Diego' Man Faces Terrorism, Fraud Charges Over Alleged Sham Gaza Charity

It turns out Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi is a "naturalized U.S. citizen" who created a fake “humanitarian” charity to send money to Hamas.

San Diego Resident Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Hamas

In his online fundraising campaigns, Sabassi claimed to be raising funds to provide humanitarian aid to people in Gaza; however, Sabassi was actually raising funds for Hamas. Sabassi and a co-conspirator joked privately that they should name the fundraiser after Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, before agreeing to use Sabassi’s Ikram.