Mr. Shahid, Consider yourself lucky, yor're still alive.
near Pete Bennett former database developer for Albert D. Seeno has
endured a long run of murdered witnesses.
Yes he fucked you like he fucks everyone but I fucked him better than
anyone - he didn't pay so I gave all his legal records to the FBI. Fuck
you all and fuck all your, plebes, partners and thugs.
I did something for everybody - when Seeno didn't pay I gave the FBI
everything needed to raid their offices.
List Dead Seeno Witnesses
Last spring, months after Ayman Shahid agreed to assist the FBI in its
probe of the Seeno family and a mortgage fraud scam, Shahid’s
former best friend Albert Seeno III delivered a “chilling
death threat,” according to newly filed court records providing
the first glimpse as to why the prominent East Bay homebuilder was
arrested.
“Hey (expletive). You’re going down! I’m going to kill
you! (expletive) you!” Seeno III said, hanging up, but not before
Shahid’s new boss heard the exchange, according to a sentencing
memorandum filed last week. Shahid, his wife and others say they have
been intimidated and threatened by Seeno family members after the former
Discovery Sales vice president decided to testify against the company.
Shahid’s Thursday sentencing is the final loose end resulting from
a 2010 federal investigation that has led to nine other people already
pleading guilty and being sentenced in cases involving Discovery Sales
mortgage fraud. In addition, Discovery Sales has pleaded guilty to bank
fraud and was fined $8 million and ordered to pay $3 million in
restitution.
While no individual Seeno family members have been charged in the
mortgage fraud scam, Seeno III was charged over the summer for the
June 8, 2016 phone threat. The witness intimidation charge was
eventually dropped.
“All charges against Albert Seeno were dismissed, entirely
dismissed on the government’s own motion,” Seeno III’s
attorney Cris Arguedas said. “After the government investigated
the allegation, the government dismissed the case.”
In the charging documents, which have been sealed but are included in
part in Shahid’s court documents, a case agent explained
probable cause.
“Some of the most significant evidence against (Discovery Sales)
… was provided to the government by Shahid,” according to
an excerpt included in Shahid’s sentencing memorandum written
by federal prosecutor John Hemann. The document described how in
the phone call Shahid and his new boss were on speaker phone when Seeno
III “ranted that he was going to ‘kill’ Shahid and
that Shahid was ‘going down.’ ”
There also was a letter sent to the new boss about Shahid, but the FBI
was not able to determine who sent the letter, Hemann wrote.
“There is no evidence that Shahid was ever in any actual danger
and, though totally and completely inappropriate and potentially
retaliatory in nature, it appears that his former boss was venting anger
rather than actually threatening death or harm to Shahid,” Hemann
wrote. “The government was not able to establish proof beyond a
reasonable doubt whether Shahid’s former employer was motivated by
retaliation for Shahid’s cooperation or anger as to the damage
Shahid’s criminal conduct did to the Discovery Sales
business.”
Shahid’s attorney Steven Madison alleged in court documents that
his family has lived in fear since a series of threats.
“Seeno III is a powerful, wealthy man with a history of
threatening conduct, and an experienced sharpshooter who also somehow
still holds a permit to carry a concealed handgun apparently,”
Madison wrote. “Mr. Seeno apparently does not dispute that he said
he would kill Mr. Shahid, he simply claims he was angry and did not
really mean it.”
Shahid and his wife, in letters to the federal judge hearing his case,
described how Shahid and Seeno III met at De La Salle High School in
Concord and became friends. Initially there was support from the Seeno
family after Shahid’s indictment, they wrote.
“The day of Ayman’s indictment, Albert Seeno III called me
from Africa, and said, ‘As God is my witness, my father and I will
stand by Ayman, and I will always defend my incentives!’ ”
wrote Fatima Shahid. But a month before Shahid’s indictment, the
elder Seeno Jr. told Shahid he would kill anyone who tried to bring down
his family, which led to the Shahids moving to Southern California.
“Shortly after Ayman’s agreement to cooperate with the
government, we received a threatening letter to our home saying awful
things about Ayman, me and even (our daughter),” Fatima wrote. She
alleged an incident inside a Nordstrom store where a Seeno family member
“stalked” her and “chased” her out of the store.
Shahid wrote that he lived in fear.
“Albert Seeno III — a violent, dangerous man … threatened
to kill me last June, even though I had relocated myself and my family to Southern
California to escape the threats and intimidation by the Seenos that was
already occurring as a result of my cooperation with the
government,” he wrote the judge.
It was not the first threat allegation against Seeno III.
In 2011, former Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore claimed in a civil suit that Seeno III threatened to break his
legs if he didn’t make a payment in a development deal, and that
Seeno associates forcibly took jewelry, expensive clothing and other
personal assets as payment from his house. A Nevada employee sued the
Seenos claiming “corporate bullying,” and said Seeno III
threatened him with dealing with people in the “Seeno Way.”
