Hezbollah
United States v. Mohammad Bazzi and 1 other
Status: Mohammad Bazzi: Pleaded guilty, September 20, 2024; Talal Chahine: Charged, February 24, 2023
- District
- Eastern District of New York
- Docket number
- 23-CR-041 (DLI); 1:23-cr-00041
- Group named in DOJ releases
- Hezbollah
- Statutes
- Not stated in DOJ release
- First DOJ release
- February 24, 2023
Primary Sources
- Sanctions Evasion and Money Laundering Charges Unsealed Against Specially Designated Global Terrorist Mohammad Bazzi and Talal Chahine, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, February 24, 2023
- Specially Designated Global Terrorist Mohammad Bazzi Pleads Guilty to Sanctions Evasion, Office of Public Affairs, September 20, 2024 (also issued by U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York)
Status and dates follow these DOJ releases. Docket details from CourtListener (RECAP).
Mohammad Bazzi
- Status
- Pleaded guilty (DOJ release, September 20, 2024)
- From the DOJ release:
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct and to cause United States persons to conduct unlawful transactions with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- Age
- 58 (per DOJ release of February 24, 2023)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to conduct and cause U.S. persons to conduct unlawful transactions with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, attempt to conduct and cause U.S. persons to conduct unlawful transactions with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and money laundering conspiracy, all in support of Hizballah
- Charged or arrested
- February 24, 2023
- Plea or verdict
- September 20, 2024
- Court docket
- 1:23-cr-00041. Last filing February 24, 2023 (CourtListener)
Talal Chahine
- Status
- Charged (DOJ release, February 24, 2023)
- From the DOJ release:
The indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn, New York on January 27, 2023, and relates to Bazzi and Chahine’s alleged activities in the United States, as directed from Lebanon.
- Age
- 78 (per DOJ release of February 24, 2023)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to conduct and cause U.S. persons to conduct unlawful transactions with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, attempt to conduct and cause U.S. persons to conduct unlawful transactions with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and money laundering conspiracy, all in support of Hizballah
- Charged or arrested
- February 24, 2023
- Custody
- DOJ describes the defendant as at large
Cite: Middle East Forum, Islamist Terrorism Prosecutions, "United States v. Mohammad Bazzi and 1 other," accessed October 13, 2026, https://cases.meforum.org/case/us-v-bazzi-2023/