Orlando nightclub shooter's father was FBI informer

March 27, 2018 00:14

Seddique Mateen, the father of the Pulse nightclub shooter, was an FBI informer for more than a decade before facing an investigation into financial transfers abroad, a lawyer for the shooters widow said in a weekend court filing.

Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, has been on trial since the beginning of the month and is accused of helping Mateen plan his terror attack on the Orlando nightclub in June 2016 and of falsely denying her role afterwards.

During the rampage that left 49 dead and 53 others injured, he repeatedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State before he was killed in a shootout with police.

The email also revealed that the FBI investigated Seddique Mateen after a search of his house, following his son's shooting, and turned up receipts for money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan between March 16 and June 5 of 2016. Seddique Mateen "has not been informed by the FBI about the investigation," the email said.

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