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Donations totaling $6,050 by a key investor in the proposed Ground Zero mosque to a Texas-based charity later shut down for financing Hamas is attracting scrutiny in New York.
Charles Leaf, a reporter for Fox 5 in New York, first reported on the 1999 donations by Hisham Elzanaty Thursday evening. The money went to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), then operating legally but already the subject of law enforcement and media investigations.
For example, its financial and family connections to Hamas Deputy Political Director Mousa Abu Marzook had been documented three years earlier by the Dallas Morning News. The report also cited the presence of Hamas leaders at HLF rallies and fundraisers.