{"id":14417,"date":"2012-09-27T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:37:41","slug":"innocence-of-muslims-filmmaker-was-a-federal-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/09\/innocence-of-muslims-filmmaker-was-a-federal-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Innocence of Muslims\u2019 filmmaker was a federal informant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (2nd R) is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officers in Cerritos, California.(Reuters \/ Bret Hartman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much remains unanswered about the US-made film that sparked riots across the Arab World, but more is unraveling by the day regarding the movie\u2019s producer. Now it\u2019s reported that the man behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ was once a federal informant.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of a serious of violent outbursts that have targeted American facilities abroad and left at least 40 dead including one US ambassador, authorities and media outlets in the United States continue to comb through information about the film that\u2019s considered the catalyst in the attacks, an anti-Islam flick branded overseas under the name \u2018Innocence of Muslims.\u2019 Less than a week after four Americans were killed at a US consulate in Benghazi, it\u2019s now being revealed that the film\u2019s producer, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, worked for the feds.<\/span><\/p>\n

A court transcript obtained by the Smoking Gun shows that, as recently as 2010, Mr. Nakoula was identified as a federal informant, a title that his attorneys hoped would help in his case when he went before sentencing that year over an earlier conviction for check fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the transcripts, attorneys for Mr. Nakoula pleaded for leniency when their client was sentenced in June 2010, arguing that \u201ccooperation\u201d with prosecutors in a separate case should be taken into consideration. Authorities had hoped that Nakoula would provide them with an direct link to Eiad Salameh, the mastermind of a check kiting scheme described in court papers as \u201ca notorious fraudster who has been tracked for more than a decade by state and federal investigators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On his own part, Nakoula pleaded that he had agreed to assist the government in order to reverse his wrongdoing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to start that I\u2019m sorry for what happened,\u201d Nakoula told a judge, the transcript reveals. \u201cNow I know that it was wrong. Therefore, I decided to cooperate with the government to retrieve some of these mistakes or damage happened. I want to cooperate with the government so that they can catch with this other criminals who is their involvement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t Nakoula\u2019s first run-in with the law, and might not be his last either. Authorities are currently investigating his role with \u2018Innocence of Muslims,\u2019 which has since been tied to an array of mob assaults in the Muslim World. Before his conviction for check fraud, though, he was charged with \u201cintent to manufacture phencyclidine,\u201d or PCP, back in 1997 after he was caught with dozens of boxes of pharmaceuticals and $45,000 in cash.<\/span><\/p>\n

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