It is striking to have just 20 associates sent packing — as a spokesman confirmed had happened at Clifford Chance, which has 3,900 lawyers worldwide.
But according to the F.B.I. documents, investigators believe that Mr. Al-Arian and his associates sent more money than that overseas, and they still cannot tell where much of it came from or where it went.
Between 1995 and 2003 the Yemeni immigrant and a group of family members, friends and associates sent $22 million by way of a JPMorgan Chase bank account to countries all over the world, including Pakistan, Thailand and Yemen.
While Reich was in Arizona in May 1956, one of his associates sent an accumulator part through the mail to another state, in violation of the injunction, after an FDA inspector posing as a customer requested it.
In the classic 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino, Robert De Niro plays Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a mafia associate, sent in to run a crooked Las Vegas gambling joint.
A friend or business associate sends you an e-mail asking you to update your contact information.
This way, if a store associate sends a customer home to order something online, that sale is still credited to the associate's region when the ZIP code is entered.
His associate sent him a perfectly written email littered with f-bombs that wowed Scaramucci unexpectedly.
Several months later, the associate sent another message to a different person reading: "My friend P is looking for ways to connect to you to pass you several messages.
According to previously undisclosed Justice Department documents, federal investigators have been trying since 1995 to trace at least $650,000 that Mr. Al-Arian and several associates helped send overseas in the late 1980's and 1990's.
