Biography
Abdulrahman Odeh was a leader of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a United States–based Muslim charity that presented itself as a major humanitarian fundraising channel for Palestinian relief. Federal authorities ultimately prosecuted Odeh and other leaders on the theory that the charity’s overseas giving and affiliated networks functioned as “material support” for Hamas.
After a federal jury conviction in 2008, Odeh was sentenced in Dallas in 2009 by Jorge A. Solis to 15 years in federal prison as part of the same case against the charity’s leadership.
