Legal Opinion
United States v. Syed Sami Ahmad
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 1993No. 92-3909PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
After receiving one college degree in Pakistan, Syed Sami Ahmad came to the United States to pursue another. He put himself through college with a combination of part-time jobs, aid from his family, and counterfeiting. Instead of passing bogus currency, Ahmad used bogus electronic components. Each cellular phone has a microchip that identifies the subscriber. Ahmad pirated telephone subscribers’ identification numbers, had a friend reprogram three chips with these numbers, and inserted the chips in cellular phones so that calls would be billed to these account…
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