If anyone at Twitter was ever suspicious of Ahmad Abouammo, he or she or xe knew not to say anything. To express such suspicion would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Former Twitter employee convicted of accepting bribes from Saudi Arabia, sharing private user information,” by Paul Best, FOXBusiness, August 10, 2022:
A former Twitter employee was convicted of failing to register as a foreign agent, wire fraud, international money laundering, and other charges for sharing private Twitter user information with officials in Saudi Arabia and members of the Saudi Royal family in exchange for cash and a luxury watch.
Ahmad Abouammo, 44, previously worked as a media partnerships manager for the Middle East/North Africa region at Twitter….
In December 2014, Abouammo met with an official from Saudi Arabia, who gave him a luxury Hublot watch worth $42,000.
Abouammo then started accessing private information on Twitter, including one influential account that was “critical of members of the Saudi Royal Family and the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the Justice Department said.
A Saudi official sent $100,000 in 2015 to a Lebanese bank account associated with a family member of Abouammo, who then laundered the money back to the U.S. in small increments.
Shortly after leaving his job at Twitter in 2021, Abouammo received another $100,000 check from the Saudi official.
Abouammo also provided false information to FBI agents who interviewed him at his Seattle home in October 2018.
A grand jury convicted Abouammo on Tuesday of failing to register as a foreign agent, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges….
Another former Twitter employee, Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah, was accused of accessing the private information of thousands of Twitter accounts for Saudi Arabia in 2015, including one that belonged to Omar Abdulaziz, who is critical of the Saudi government….
