Federal prosecutors charged a former FBI translator with lying about contacts with the subject of a terror investigation, the Justice Department announced
Abdirizak Haji Raghe Wehelie, 66, of St. Burk, Virginia, was arrested on Saturday and was scheduled to appear in an Alexandria federal court on Monday afternoon, authorities said.Wehelie faces seven charges of making false statements to investigators and one for obstructing a federal investigation, the indictment said, and he faces up to 25 years in prison. An attorney for Wehelie was not immediately listed.
The latter person was on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List, according to the indictment.Despite his own voice in the voicemail he was translating, Wehelie listed himself as"unidentified male," the court documents said. A grand jury also charged Wehelie with making additional false statements to investigators when he was interviewed in 2016.
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