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Okay, this the wackiest thing I have ever heard any crook claim. How? You were illegal dealing arms and they CAUGHT you doing it!!!!!

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A West Philadelphia imam was sentenced yesterday to eight years and four months in a federal slammer for selling handguns and assault rifles without a license to an FBI informant who he thought was a drug dealer.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage ordered Wayne Hogue, 48, also known as “Imam Wadir,” to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on April 30. Hogue is an imam of the 52nd Street Mosque in West Philadelphia, prosecutors said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Zaleski said the government was satisfied with the sentence, which was within the sentencing-guideline range of 97 to 121 months.

Pleading his case before Savage, Hogue ranted against federal investigators, who he said had engaged in “unethical behavior.” “I was hoodwinked, bamboozled and led amok,” Hogue said, referring to the informant, who he said had “seduced” him.

Hogue was convicted last September after a four-day trial for dealing in firearms without a license and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Between May 2003 and March 2004, Hogue sold the informant two assault rifles, both loaded with live rounds of ammo; a rifle with a sawed-off barrel and an obliterated serial number; a 12-gauge shotgun; and six handguns, three of which had obliterated serial numbers and two of which contained live ammo.

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