Former U. of Memphis Student Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Concluding Terrorism Investigation

Mahmoud Maawad, a former student at the University of Memphis and two New Jersey community colleges, pleaded guilty last week to felony wire fraud.

Last fall, while enrolled as a freshman at Memphis, Mr. Maawad was arrested for wire fraud against a pilot's-supply company and for the fraudulent use of a Social Security number. A native of Egypt, he had been in the United States illegally since 1999, when his temporary visitor's visa expired.

Mr. Maawad used a false Social

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