News Highlights 2001 – 2004
2004 News:
Groups, U.S. Battle Over ‘Global Terrorist’ Label
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| Washingtonpost.com | By: David B. Ottaway | 11/14/04 |
Reporters’ Files Subpoenaed
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| Washingtonpost.com | By: Susan Schmidt | 09/10/04 |
Unproven weapons claim led to Islamic charity raid in ’01
| Detroit Free Press | By: Niraj Warikoo | 09/04/04 |
9/11 panel faults probe of 2 charities
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| Chicagotribune.com | By: Laurie Cohen | 08/24/04 |
Bogus Kelley story results in $17k payment to Islamic charity
| Metrotimes.com | A costly mea culpa | By: News Hits staff | 7/21/04 |
| Poynter.org | Bogus Kelley story results in $17k payment to Islamic charity | 7/21/04 |
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Crofton Lending Corp. Case update
| Gordon & Simmons, LLC | 05/07/04 |
Press Reacts to USA TODAY’s retraction of comments about GRF
| Metrotimes.com | Fiction hits home | By: Ann Mullen | 4/28/04 |
USA Today Retracts Statements about Gordon & Simmon’s Client,
Global Relief Foundation
| USATODAY.com | By: Kevin McCoy | 04/22/04 |
Roger Simmons invited to testify before National Commission on 911
| Gordon & Simmons, LLC | 04/03 |
9/11 panel invites local attorney
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| Front Page Frederick News Post | By: Katherine Heerbrandt | 04/11/04 |
Roger C. Simmons, of Gordon & Simmons, represented the second-largest Muslim charity in the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Global Relief Foundation was shut down by the federal government in 2002, though no evidence has emerged linking it to any terrorist group.
The author who would tell circus family secrets
| St. Petersburg Times | By: Leonora LaPeter | 01/18/04 |
2003 News:
Johnnie Cochran makes first appearance in Pottker case
| Gordon & Simmons, LLC | 10/22/03 |
Relationship with Johnnie Cochran
| Gordon & Simmons, LLC | 9/03 |
Global Relief Foundation former officers speak out
against the Government’s use of arbitrary actions and
secret evidence to destroy Muslim charities
and persecute their personnel — Gordon & Simmons, LLC
continues the legal battle
| Metrotimes.com | Haddad breaks his silence | By: Ann Mullen | 3/17/04 |
2001 News:
The Greatest Vendetta on Earth
| Salon.com | By: Jeff Stein | 08/30/01 |
Why would the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hire a former top CIA honcho to torment a hapless freelance writer for eight years?
