MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Defense lawyers return to court next month to ask a judge to overturn the conviction of an Oregon man found guilty of smuggling $150,000 to Saudi Arabia through a now-defunct Islamic charity that he ran in Ashland.
The Medford Mail Tribune reports that U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan has scheduled arguments Jan. 18 in Eugene in the case of Pete Seda. He was convicted Sept. 10, but no sentencing date has been set.
Federal prosecutors have asked Hogan for an eight-year prison sentence based on evidence that the money went to finance terrorism by Muslim fighters trying to break Chechnya away from Russia.
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Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/
