As an FBI surveillance employee, Ray Tahir spent the last decade tailing Muslims in counterterrorism cases.
Among the investigations whose surveillance Tahir led were those of the charity Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in Texas and North Carolina’s Daniel Patrick Boyd, who with others was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to commit murder, maiming, and kidnapping overseas.
Both FBI cases had their critics. The American Civil Liberties Union described the prosecution of Holy Land Foundation as “discriminatory enforcement of counterterrorism laws.” In the Boyd case, as in other informant-led FBI stings, there are questions about whether the men convicted would have done anything at all were it not for the FBI’s involvement.
As the FBI targeted Muslims in the United States following the 9/11 attacks, Tahir was among the front-line employees who made some of these cases possible.
Now, he alleges, he has become a target himself.
On May 11, 2012, Tahir was at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., fighting to keep his $78,000-per-year job. A 26-year FBI veteran, Tahir was a member of the Mobile Surveillance Team, a special unit that monitors suspects of espionage and terrorism.
Tahir, who had been called for a hearing at the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was accused of making personal charges on his covert credit card, unauthorized gasoline purchases, and lack of candor. He had been placed on suspension pending the hearing.
The FBI employee had admitted to his supervisors that he made more than 200 personal charges during a four-year period, many of them for groceries at stores like Harris Teeter and Food Lion. He ran up a balance of $10,000, which he’d begun to pay back by the time he was called to headquarters; he blamed the charges on personal financial troubles.
But Tahir denied the unauthorized gasoline purchases and maintained that he had been candid while he was under investigation, though he did admit that he changed the address where the card’s statements were to be sent in order to hide his personal spending from supervisors. Nevertheless, Tahir thought that if he admitted to the credit card purchases, explained the circumstances, and apologized, he’d walk away with a suspension. He knew other FBI employees had received reprimands or suspensions for similar transgressions.
Five minutes into his hearing, Tahir was recounting his FBI career to the woman who was his judge and jury — Candice M. Will, the assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
FBI agents guard the entrance to the Holy Land Foundation in Richardson, Texas, Dec. 5, 2001.
Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
“What kind of name is Tahir?” she asked.
“It’s Turkish, ma’am.”
Tahir then continued to describe his career.
After Dallas, he moved to North Carolina, where he established another Mobile Surveillance Team unit and was responsible for surveillance of Boyd and his alleged co-conspirators.
During the hearing, Will expressed frustration that Tahir attempted to minimize, in her view, what he’d done. Tahir explained that he never submitted the personal charges for reimbursement from the government; those charges simply piled up on the card.
“The charges will exceed the amount you’re reimbursed when you’re putting personal charges on a government card,” Will said firmly. “The government’s not going to reimburse you for that.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Tahir said.
Tahir, who had been suspended once before for misusing his government credit card, became conciliatory later in the hearing.
“I understand I did something wrong. I wake up every day and pray to God that I get my job with the FBI back, because that’s all I know, ma’am,” Tahir told Will. “I’ve sat in a car for 26 years and done surveillance, and right now, to go out in the private sector and say, ‘Hey, can I get a job sitting in a car eight hours a day in the middle of the night for you?’ I’m not marketable.”
Will’s Office of Professional Responsibility ruled to terminate Tahir for all three charges of misconduct.
Tahir appealed the decision internally to the Disciplinary Review Board, which dropped his charge of unauthorized gasoline purchases but upheld his termination. He then took the case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — a four-year process that took another turn Wednesday, as Tahir filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the government in U.S. District Court in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The lawsuit alleges that he was discriminated against because of his national origin, and in the complaint, his lawyer, J. Denton Adams, references Will’s question about Tahir’s name during the Office of Professional Responsibility hearing.
Though Tahir may not be a model plaintiff to demonstrate discrimination at the FBI — as he openly admits to misusing his covert credit card — the FBI in recent years has faced discrimination claims from Muslim employees and those of Middle Eastern origin.
FBI Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, now retired, spent nearly a year battling the FBI over his wrongful termination before finally being reinstated in 2004.
Another FBI agent, Bassem Youssef, filed a discrimination lawsuit in 2003, alleging that he was excluded from doing counterterrorism work and that the bureau had a “glass ceiling” for employees of Middle Eastern origin. Youssef charged that the FBI was promoting agents who lacked basic knowledge of Arabic and Middle Eastern culture into high-ranking counterterrorism positions.
Depositions taken in Youssef’s case did at least demonstrate ignorance of Islam among high-level FBI officials. Dale Watson, the bureau’s former counterterrorism chief, was asked under oath if he knew the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, for example. “Not technically, no,” Watson responded.
A federal jury rejected Youssef’s claims earlier this year.
More recently, FBI employees with familial ties overseas alleged they are being scrutinized in an internal surveillance program intended to identify potential foreign spies.
Photo: Roger May for The Intercept
A barrel-chested man who wears a baseball cap, Tahir has never identified much with his father’s Turkish roots. He considers himself all-American, the son of a bar owner from Pittsburgh whose Italian mother insisted he be raised Catholic.
As an FBI surveillance employee, he had two credit cards — an overt one and a covert one. The overt one, in his name, was to be used for training trips and whenever a cover wasn’t necessary. The rules and accounting governing that card were strict, in line with most federal employee credit cards. Tahir’s other card, in the name of his cover identity, Ray Mancini, was intended for use on surveillance assignments. Accountability for that card was much looser, and for a time, he got away with having statements for the card sent to an address where his supervisor could not review them.
With his daughters in college and bills piling up, Tahir said he used his covert card to float expenses for groceries and other everyday items. He expected to pay everything back, he said. Instead, over several years, he just got further behind.
“I’m not saying I didn’t do anything wrong. I misused the credit card. I’m not going to lie to you,” Tahir said in an interview with The Intercept in his modest apartment outside Raleigh. In the small dining room, boxes of documents from his case and his career with the FBI were stacked against the walls.
“In the FBI, if you show remorse, that’s the common thing,” Tahir explained. At the hearing, “My attorney was like, ‘Mr. Tahir was embarrassed. He was sorry,’ then you get off without a slap on the face. Not me.”
There are, in fact, examples of where the bureau has not terminated employees for credit card abuse. A log of FBI disciplinary actions obtained by Tahir and his lawyer through the Freedom of Information Act lists disciplinary cases similar to Tahir’s that resulted in reprimands.
In March 2010, a support supervisor received a letter of censure for charging $3,686.68 to his government card. Another employee in 2009 received a 60-day suspension for “repeated and prolonged” misuse of a government credit card, including using it to rent a car for a year. In 2006, an FBI agent received a 10-day suspension after making 39 personal charges to her government credit card, explaining that she was unaware “such personal use of a government credit card was against bureau regulations.” Another FBI agent in 2006 received a 15-day suspension after making more than $16,000 in personal purchases using his government credit card.
The FBI did not respond to requests for comment on Tahir’s case.
Tahir is aware of the irony of his claims. He spent his career surveilling Muslims in FBI counterterrorism cases, including the men behind the Holy Land Foundation, who were convicted of funneling money to Hamas. The case was controversial because the defendants were not accused of giving money directly to Hamas, but to charities that were allegedly controlled by the group.
The Holy Land Foundation defendants were given prison sentences ranging from 15 to 65 years in a landmark prosecution that had a chilling effect on Muslim charities.
Having spent years following the defendants as the FBI built a criminal case, Tahir is among the case’s critics as well. “I’m sure they found certain funds to Hamas. The FBI says they did,” Tahir said. “But I don’t know. I didn’t see them as hardcore terrorists.”
Now, Tahir claims he’s been victimized by the same bias that underpinned many of the cases he worked on as an FBI employee.
“I know what you might be thinking — that I’m playing the race card now because it’s convenient for me,” Tahir said. “I can understand why you might think that. But I have no other way to explain why I was fired for this and so many other FBI employees weren’t.”
We support Ray Tahir and his family… He was treated different due to his Turkish nationality. Very sad in this day and age we still see discrimination in the federal government towards Arab Americans and so many others.
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I am just another guy from Pittsburgh coming out in support of Ray Tahir. I went to high school with Ray at Serra High and we have been friends forever. I have read what he did like all of America and I have seen Government employee’s do a lot more and receive a lot less.. He was railroaded by the organization he dedicated his life to for 26 years weekends, nights, holidays all for nothing .. You would think some of that would have been taken into consideration…. ” Just to let everyone know we will pay any price, bear any burden and oppose any foe in support of our good friend Ray Tahir” God bless my brother look forward to your day in court as well.
A Muslim friend also supporting Ray Tahir and his family. Met Ray in 1982 I came from Saudi Arabia to Waynesburg, College. Green County, PA. We spent 4 years together in Business School. He helped me adjust to the states and was always there when I needed help. Great man and yes he made a mistake but the bottom line is now that he was treated different than other FBI employee’s who committed the same violation that is what I call discrimination.
As-Salaam-Alaikum
Your old Friend from Saudi
Trevor Aaronson too has bills to pay but no corporate credit card to splurge on. so he wastes readers time leaning on The Intercept
He would never had known what to write if the name here was say Irish. Not one he says that this despicable joker was a repeat offender, lacked integrity that too working for FBI where common citizen repose their trust. How many who were only given a rap on wrist were repeat offenders – but how would Trevor know, that requires research & painstaking. Trevor is same as person he writes about & its all about getting freebies by entitlement. Poor Trevor – he has no other vocation or skills to fall back upon.
What’s the problem here? Serves him right. First he spies on folks, maybe even tempting them to become fake suicide-bombers. Then he spends public money as if it was his own. I would say be better take over the bar from his dad and drink a few pegs to the success he has had catching other Muslim terrorists after maybe first converting them from idiotic citizens to dreaded terrorists.
Come January these type of jihadists will find themselves on the other side of the wall.
Just another guy from Pittsburgh throwing his love and support for Raymond Tahir and his family. Also known him all my life and everyone makes mistakes. He paid restitution. We now look forward to his day in court. God Bless my fat friend.
Bobby G.
University of Pittsburgh, School of Law 89′
This guy should stop complaining. He should have known by singling out the Muslim community to spy on was and is an act of discrimination and bigotry itself. He decided to become a part of it just to get paid. Cleaning toilets would have been a better choice for him. Maybe he could have earned enough money to buy groceries.
Mr. Tahir is a great man. He comes from a great family. He didid wrong, but paid it back. He stood up and didn’t hid from the situation. Hope should be treated like the rest of the people in this situation. Then make a policy underlining punishments. Don’t make an example out of him because his last name. Love you T! You are a great man!
It’s a shame how the FBI are treating Mr. Tahir. Especially, after all of his service he’s given to our country. He sacrificedid family and friends, to protect us. To ask the question the origin of his name? Tells you right there that Will was judging him in a negative light. Also, tells you that she isn’t good at her job. She was unprepared and she had her mind made up due to his appearance and background. I’m sorry, but she had to ask him original of his name, she should of had known that. She should of known everything about him. It’s only his entire career on the line. It’s sad that he lost everything over this. Clearly there was precedence for a punishment, but Will discriminated Tahir. He should of been suspended, and continue his career. Just like everyone else. What’s most apauling is that FBI doesn’t have any precidure documents that an Agent must sign for Credit Card use. Where is there Code Of Conduct? Please keep writing on Mr. Tahir’s case, because he deserves justice, and his job back immediately.
To: 0Mr. Tahir and his family. I thank you for protecting my family and loved ones. You gave up so much in your life defending our country, and I just want to thank you! God Bless you and your family!
US taxpayer’s have a right to not be ripped off by any public servant and they’ve already suffered with the biggest thieves on the face of this planet being bailed out Too Big To Fail Wall St Banksters
Just another guy from Pittsburgh who loves Ray Tahir and supports him forever. #Clairton, PA.
Oh, I love all the comments here attesting to Mr. Tahir’s “integrity”. Let’s review:
-Mr. Tahir pilfered money over a period of 4 years. Clearly this was not an accidental use of a credit–anyone could make that mistake once, maybe twice. But 200 times?!
-Mr. Tahir changed the address to which the credit card statements were sent in order to hide the charges from his superiors. This was clearly a planned theft, not some spur of the moment, Oops, I’m short 20 bucks on my grocery bill so I’ll cover it with my work credit card just this once and pay it right back (in four years).
-Mr. Tahir’s theft amounted to $10,000! I believe this amount would be considered grand theft anywhere in the United States of America outside OUR GOVERNMENT.
-Mr. Tahir worked in LAW ENFORCEMENT at the time of his crimes. No comment.
-Mr. Tahir used his COVERT credit card at his local supermarket and gas station where there was a chance that he’d be recognized (perhaps a friend of his daughter at the cash register), and people might wonder why his credit card did not bear the name by which they knew him, potentially blowing his cover? Really? No, REEEALLY???
-Mr. Tahir believes (perhaps because his employer sent the clear message that) if you just show embarrassment and remorse, and pay back the money all will be forgiven and you can go back to your old job FIGHTING CRIME.
Conclusion:
1. Some of the world’s greatest people–civil right activists, anti-war activists, charities–have been surveilled (and possibly entrapped) by the likes of Ray Tahir.
2. It’s time to flush the gigantic over-funded toilet called the FBI.
You better start at the top of the organization and goverment then… have some coffee and wake up!! REALLLLY. for you, maybe someone (top govt official) with a private server and national security info on it??? REALLY – this does pose a major threat ???? enjoy your coffee. We Support Mr. Tahir!!
Yeah, as I said, Time to flush the lot of them. And as I said, “perhaps because his employer sent the clear message” that this type of misconduct (to put it mildly) is no biggy.
I couldn’t agree with you more, if you’ve got this at the bottom, there are much bigger issues at the top. But I, sadly, am in no position to expose corruption at the FBI since I’ve never worked for them and have no access to insider information. Perhaps Mr. Tahir could help us with this?
What about you? Do you have information that the American people should know about? Or is standing for the national anthem the sum total of your service to your country?
HELLO! He made $78,000 / year and had a credit card for expenses. Now he’s crying he can’t get another job sitting on his ass? He should have thought of that before he cheated. Oh; but he was “starting to pay it back”. $78,000 / year for 26 years and he don’t have a pot to piss in? Give me a break.
Another guy from Pittsburgh throwing his love and support to Ray Tahir and his family. I have worked with him and known him for ever. No thief here just average guy making his way through live raising 3 awesome girls… Cant wait for his day in court… Your old friend from the Northside. God Bless
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Wow Ray Tahir I love this guy. He has more integrity than 99% of the federal employee’s walking around Washington, DC. Candis Will makes her decisions on how you look, who you know and whatever the weather may be on Pennsylvania Avenue on that particular day. But what do we care she is only ruining internal FBI employee’s and has no relevance in the real world. But in this case she ruined a good friend of mine I have known since high school. Will should be removed from her position and Director Comey should reverse her decision. Good luck “T” and you always have a job working for me in Rockville, MD stay strong my brother……………
Mr. Tahir is a very good man, someone you would want to know, he made an error, brought it forth to pay and has worked to correct this situation.
The FBI is trying to dismiss a hard working American – who has work to serve the government and protect the people.
He did his job well, as directed for over 26 years, has been making good to correct this, and move forward in life.
The total amount was being repaid in full prior to the 2012 hearing.
Ms. C. Will -needs reassignment – after her implementation of a personal opinion and injustice for Mr. Tahir and his surname.
The reference to the surname, is outrageous to be asked and should not be tolerated.
As well, others have not been terminated for more serious concerns, FBI is not treating the same offense equally for all.
Mr. Tahir has paid back the amount, has the integrity to address this, and not run from it.
In Fact, Mr. Tahir ‘stands during the raising of the US flag and National Anthem, with Respect and Honor’!! This is in support of Mr. Tahir.
The reason for termination may simply be because he’s become a risk to his security clearance. Credit card debt and inability to repay it, and defrauding the government while you’re an employee, puts a person at high risk of being manipulated by unfriendly entities.
We don’t know about his personal financial situation. I would imagine it’s bad if he resorted to using his work credit card for simple things as groceries and gas. What do we not know? Gambling problem? Some other behaviour that makes him a liability?
Oh what BS. The old misuse of a credit card charge. Waiting for child porn found on his computer and/or various sex scandals to be “discovered”.
how about the agent who said, ‘i was unaware that such use of a government credit card was against bureau regulations.’ she should been fired for lying or being incompetent.
My understanding of discrimination law is that it requires a lot of evidence. If they’re actually going to court with competent lawyers then he probably has a pretty damn good case (not just the OPM asking about his name).
I don’t know why everyone’s bringing up his misusing of funds, or his involvement in spying operations. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The way you fix the FBI is punishing them for this kind of discriminatory behavior and promoting diversity of opinions and experiences. This is a very positive development.
This fellow doesn’t seem to have a natural constituency.
Those who admire the FBI will condemn him for violating its rules. Those who criticize the FBI will condemn him for performing his job.
Muslims will condemn him for spying on them without a warrant. Those who dislike Muslims will condemn him for having a Muslim sounding name and for trying to embarrass the FBI.
Those who oppose discrimination will condemn him for his targeted surveillance. Those who favor discrimination will cheer the FBI’s punishment of him.
Those opposed to hypocrisy will condemn him for complaining about receiving the same treatment he dished out to others, Those who are hypocrites will condemn him because they are hypocrites.
This guy is the prototype of the rugged American individualist.
That just makes it even more important that he is given a fair and by the books process. We need to be sure a guy like this is being treated fairly, because if he is, then we can be pretty sure that we will all be.
Like all FBI agents, Tahir is a terrorist specializing in the fabrication of charges against innocent individuals.
As confirmed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) the FBI has a list of over 2-million Arabs, Muslims, and American political dissidents who are persecuted or assassinated.
The list is shared with all government and police agencies with instructions to target those named.
In denying my inclusion in the list the FBI lied to me, my lawyer, Senator Charles Schumer, and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and thereafter sent me 100 pages of the file claiming that there was no more.
Who are the terrorists?
Worked with him in NY great guy the Bureau fucked him over very hard
Known this guy for ever he worked his balls off for that organization lol Turk
Wow I would got the matt for Ray Tahir any day. Waynesburg College 1982 Not a thief bone in this guy
Ray Tahir great guy hard charger would do anything for you. Insiders say that his credit card was paid off prior to his dismissal sad seen people do a lot more and get a lot less. Good Luck Kimosabi Retired Dallas PD
Ray Tahir worked with him in Dallas great guy hard charger would do anything for you… Insiders say that credit card was paid off prior to dismissal no stealing on his part.. Seen a lot worse and get a lot less… Good luck Kimosabi retired Dallas PD
As you sow shall you also reap. No sympathy for this dork.
Is that the same FBI operating a “CoinTelPro on Steroids” program after 9/11?
Is that the same FBI that withheld evidence from judges on their Sting-Ray cell-phone partnerships with local police departments?
Is that the same FBI that criminally conspired with former Attorney General Ashcroft to abuse the federal “Material Witness Statute” – to quasi-imprison American citizens through “employment tampering”, employment destruction and defamation of innocent Americans?
Is that the same FBI that was an accessory to warrantless wiretapping and other warrantless spying (which was a felony crime during the Bush Administration)?
Maybe he was fired for having too much integrity?
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Metaphorically speaking. Ask Mr. Tahir what he knows about the stalking and harassment of law-abiding U.S. citizens:
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Muslim or not, he is a thief. He stole money from the government. Why the others who did the same or similar were not fired is something else to discuss and see if there are double standards, but at the end of the day the conclusion is still the same: dude, you stolew something, so you are a thief. I think the firing was appropriate, or am I missing something?
Not a thief. Very common problem with Govt CC’s. They issue you an Amex for travel/legit expenses. It’s in your name, you are responsible for the debt/fees incurred. You must submit expenses to be reimbursed, often reimbursement comes late/etc. It’s a PITA and much like corporate world, if they want to “get” you, they’ll always find a reason in your expense reports given the subjective nature of the rules/interpretations. He was tagged previously for using it for personal expenses (which just accumulate until you pay them), that’s one strike, rarely do you get a third opportunity. Relatively common problem with junior enlisted/young officers in the military.
Wow Great guy hard charger would do anything for you. Insiders say his card was all paid off before he was terminated seen a lot worse get a lot less good luck kimosabi Retired Dallas PD
Yes, you are missing the part where people who are, ostensibly, not of Middle Eastern background, are ALSO thieves in the same way, but were not terminated. He’s not looking for anyone’s pity for being a thief, he readily admitted that. What the issue is, is why is it that people with “Christian names” (that is the proper term for the name of anyone baptized in the Christian religion, by the way) don’t get fired, but people with names that sound Muslim or are Muslim, have gotten fired? You pooh-poohed the very issue at hand: discrimination in disciplinary practices. Yes, it IS a matter to be settled, and in fact, is THE matter he wants to have settled. He didn’t ask for any concessions for being a thief, he just wants to know why what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander? Remember, his employer is the US government, and the US government has a higher onus on non-discrimination, since they are also subject to the 1st Amendment, not just US Code.
You may have missed: “He ran up a balance of $10,000, which he’d begun to pay back by the time he was called to headquarters”
I mean, not many thieves who aren’t yet caught start to pay back their victims. Of course, he may have done so out of self-protective purposes, but it’s still not quite like normal thievery.
If you quietly lifted a pack of cigarettes from you local 7-11 because you had left your wallet at home and just badly needed a cigarette and you had every intention of coming back and paying for it, you’d probably get jumped by store employees, handcuffed, put into the back of a police cruiser, fingerprinted, have your name in the local paper, and have a record that you’d be praying your employer didn’t find out about. You might even do some jail time. That’s how we deal with normal thievery in this country.
Indeed, what Tahir did was not like normal thievery. It was like stealing $10,000 (grand theft) from taxpayers over a long period of time while he held a position of responsibility in LAW ENFORCEMENT.
You must be an FBI agent, HippoDave. No one else would stick up for this guy.
On the one hand, I think Tahir was rightfully fired for his actions. If you’re instructed on how to use a credit card, you’re supposed to use it a certain way.
Now, if he was given harsher punishment than others who used their cards wrongfully, or if he was singled out for punishment simply because of his name while letting others go for the same or similar actions, it’s the other actions that need looking into. Punishment for his actions should be the same as punishment for others who did similar things.
What kind of name is that? asked judge and jury Candice M. Will.
What kind of inane question is that? What is it with this ancestry scrutinization of US Citizens, which opens a whole new playing field for bias and prejudice. How very Trumpian! How very Un-American.
I would be most interested to know exactly how much $$ has been wasted by these FBI Informants or Surveillance Employees….
ALL AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE!!
SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!! SHAME!! SHAME!! + KARMA IS A BITCH!!!
What is it with these gov credit cards!? Is this a wallstreet enterprise to double the cost of a gov, which runs a sham because instead of having a savings account to pay bills, it too has a credit account with wallstreet and borrows the money and then bills the population. What a scam.
And i hear the states to the same damn thing. You got whatsisname in florida using his gov card for personal stuff. WTF?
I would bet if i were and f…b…i… guy, and i NEVER used either card, because i wouldnt, i would be fired for not using the cards.
Tahir should be thankful he got fired by the FBI; now he can get an honest job.
Very interesting to say the least. After all the years and dedication it seems like it comes down to your last name. Known this man my whole life no one more American and proud to be American. It’s a shame.
“Boo hoo, i stole $10000 and got fired for it. I mean..Im being discriminated against. Discrimination I say!!”
what a jackass..
Granted, this is an old report, but misuse of Guv P-cards is nothing new.
Some rules by which to live and die:https://fcw.com/articles/2008/04/09/gao-report-outlines-purchase-card-abuses.aspx
No thief here get ur story straight
I will stand by my husband he is great man and dedicated his life to the FBI and its mission.
he’s a thief, a sneak, and a ruiner of lives. With any luck he’ll wind up in prison.
Your husband was duped. This credit card crap is a trap. A TRAP. It’s the same trap that wallstreet uses to trap consumers to borrow to pay high prices they control. Same trap wallstreet used to *allow* high home prices so people could borrow against them to pay high bills from wallstreet high prices because wallstreet thieves want higher profits so they keep jacking prices to keep forcing loans to keep issuing credit cards.
They are thieves and the ordinary people are in their trap.
NEVER USE A CREDIT CARD. EXCEPT NEVER.
¯\_(?)_/¯
Barabbas back at it again!
Mrs. Tahir,
From this careful reporting, it really does sound like your husband was merely a night shift tailer, not himself racially profiling, and that he may have been fired unfairly (because inequitably).
His succumbing to a temptation that is a firing offense doesn’t help. This blinds some who aren’t careful readers, or some justifiably angered by our corrupt, profiling, often incompetent but very destructive FBI, to both the plausible injustice and your probable desperation. Emotional reactions, including xenophobia, can help someone to treat someone else inequitably.
Even if your husband did not leave anything out of his story to the reporters, should have been punished equitably, and should have another chance at keeping his job, you have to assume it might not get fixed. You have to take satisfaction in having done everything possible. You also should assume you need to tackle the alternative. Best wishes at finding new work at a livable wage, because so many have to take huge salary cuts. Research counseling, to help you adapt to whatever may happen. Sometimes you can find it at reduced rates from public interest or government services, to help you react productively when it’s difficult. Your reactions matter, since they affect how you’ll adapt and can get you to the most satisfying possible attitude.