Victor L. Hou
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Victor L. Hou Hou
Victor L. Hou, an assistant United States attorney, said yesterday that Mr. Farhane had introduced Mr. Shah to the government informer at his bookstore. In a letter to Judge Preska, Mr. Hou wrote that Mr. Farhane, after he was arrested, told investigators that he had introduced Mr. Shah to the informer to help him. The prosecutors also cast new light yesterday on the role of the government informer, a Yemeni named Mohamed Alanssi. Mr. Hou said that the confidential source was Mr. Alanssi who identified Mr. Farhane to the F.B.I. in the weeks after 9/11. Mr. Farhane made in court on Wednesday when he pleaded not guilty and said that he loved this country. Mr. Hou said wiretap recordings in March 2004 register Mr. Farhane saying that the United States is not a country where they should stay. In a letter to Judge Preska, Victor L. Hou, an assistant United States attorney, wrote that Mr. Farhane, after he was arrested told investigators that he had introduced Mr. Shah to the informer to help him send money to jihadists overseas. The prosecutors also cast new light on the role of the government informer, a Yemeni named Mohamed Alanssi. Mr. Hou said that Mr. Alanssi, first identified Mr. Farhane to the F.B.I. in the weeks after 9/11 as having radical views of Islam. Mr. Alanssi secretly recorded a series of conversations with Mr. Farhane, many of them at his Brooklyn bookstore. Mr. Hou grew impassioned when he sought to rebut a statement Mr. Farhane made in court, when he pleaded not guilty saying that he loves this country although wiretap recordings register Mr. Farhane as saying that this is not a country where they should stay.