Talal Chahine is the founder of La Shish, a once-booming Middle Eastern restaurant chain in Detroit. He’s also a fugitive, having fled to Lebanon back in 2006 after getting waist-deep into legal trouble with the federal government.

Now Chahine has added terror cash mule to his long list of troubles.

According to the Justice Department, Chahine and a man named Mohammad Bazzi secretly elbowed their way back into La Shish ownership, trying to use it as a front to bankroll Hezbollah’s terror operations in the Middle East.

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