(San Antonio Express-News) Federal prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against a San Antonio businessman accused of trying to fund terrorist groups in Syria.
Imad Eddin Wadi is charged with three counts of conspiring to support opposition forces — which the U.S. has designated as terrorist organizations — during a civil war that raged in Syria between 2012 and 2019.
The opposition forces included Ahrar al Sham and Fateh al Sham.
Wadi denies the allegations, and his lawyers said in their opening statements on May 17 that the FBI entrapped Wadi as the struggling businessman tried to land an investor for a business selling beef to the Middle East. Entrapment is when a law enforcement officer induces a person to commit a crime that the person otherwise would have been unwilling to commit.
