[ April 15, 2024 ]
Taxpayers will be forced to cough up the legal fees for the defense of the wife of Omar Mateen, the Orlando terrorist tied to ISIS who attacked Pulse nightclub partiers back in 2016.
Forty-nine were killed and 58 wounded during the attack.
Mateen, meanwhile, was shot and killed by police.
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But Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, was arrested in January for allegedly providing support to a terrorist and for obstructing justice. Her legal fees are substantial — but thanks to a recent order from a judge, it’ll be taxpayers who pay.
From the Breitbart (h/t Associated Press):
Taxpayers will be forced to pay the legal fees of the wife of an Orlando terrorist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, according to a motion her attorneys filed in court and released Monday.
A judge granted a motion by attorneys for Noor Salman, wife of Omar Mateen, to waive her legal fees because she is considered indigent, leaving at least part of the cost of her defense to the taxpayers, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Salman’s attorneys specifically requested that the court foot the bill for a computer expert who would go through data on computers and mobile devices that belonged to her and her late husband to look for evidence to back up Salman’s claim that Mateen showed her a picture of the Pulse nightclub less than 48 hours before the shooting.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that the government-funded computer forensics expert would be responsible for sifting through three computers, four cell phones, multiple flash drives, an iPad Mini, 12 discs, and a PDF file containing 38,000 pages of data from Salman’s Facebook account.
Records show that these devices contain two terabytes of data.
Salman told investigators her husband showed her a picture of Pulse on June 10 and added that he asked her the week before the attack, “How bad would it be if a club got attacked?”
Salman’s trial is set for March.
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9 Comments
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6 years ago
More profits for the lawyers.
6 years ago
Left/Liberal Judges who oppose muslim immigration ban along with coward celebs like http://bit.ly/2u4CPfj
…should be made to pay for the cost. Until they are made to pay for their support to jihadis they will continue this stupidity of supporting jihadis.
6 years ago
Sharia jurisprudens has not only entered the good ole’ USA – it is stomping all over it. Money talks.
This country is going down fast.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
She does have a right to a defense. Being appointed a public defender is normal course of action
6 years ago
It all comes down to “billable hours” lots of yachts and sports cars, not to mention whores and vacations will come from her trial. It will be a great economic stumbles package for the legal industry. After seeing Canada’s prime mister award 10.5 million dollars to a convicted terrorist murderer, terrorism is now a growth industry.
6 years ago
6 years ago
This woman, and I use the term loosely because I have a better term for her knew what he was going to do and no one will convince me otherwise. She could of stopped it and didn’t. Bottom line is she deserves some serious jail time. Figures the taxpayers have to pay for her defense.
6 years ago
How about the Islamic state pick up the tab?
6 years ago
ARE YOU KIDDING ME! SHE IS A TERRORIST! OUST THE VILE PIECE OF GARBAGE JUDGE WHO AIDED ISLAMIC TERRORISM!
