Vogel is tracking that dough! There is no there there, but what Vogel doesn’t understand is that what we lack in the bank, we more than make up for in sheer will and passion for liberty, and no amount of jihad petrol money can defeat that.

The latest in the $125 million dollar rub-our-faces-in-it Ground Zero mosque money story — where racketeering, laundering, terror financing, rap sheets, and foreign money abound — seems to have barely piqued in the interest of the hard hitting journolists over at Politico:

Sharif el-Gamal was a waiter a few years ago, who has turned into a real estate powerhouse. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with making it big in America, as long as el-Gamal is playing by the rules. But is he? Charles Leaf found out that  el-Gamal’s SOHO Properties real estate business, which owns the site on which the Ground Zero mosque is to be built, has been receiving financial support from an Egyptian-born owner of several medical companies named Hisham Elzanaty. Elzanaty, Mr. Leaf reports, is the guarantor on a $39 million loan that el-Gamal’s company assumed.

Mr. Elzanaty’s name is listed in campaign donation records as contributing to the campaigns of President Obama and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both supporters of the mosque.

One of Mr. Elzanty’s companies was audited by New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General who found that the company was overpaid $331,336 for Medicaid services.

Hisham Elzanaty was also in the center of a racketeering and fraud suit brought against him and others by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in 2007. The complaint charged, among other things, that Mr. Elzanaty arranged for a doctor to set up a “facade” of fraudulently incorporated professional service companies under her name, which Elzanatry actually controlled, to receive payments from State Farm that they were not eligible to receive.

The complaint described Elzanatry’s alleged scheme as a:

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