A former used-car dealer from Queens wasn’t coerced into confessing that he conspired to arm Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, a judge ruled yesterday.
Patrick Nayyar claimed he only blabbed because anti-terror agents threatened to deport his wife and put his kids in a foster home.
But Manhattan federal Judge Robert Sweet called Nayyar’s pretrial testimony “uncorroborated, inconsistent at times and, ultimately, not credible.”
Sweet instead sided with FBI Agent Michael Kelley, who testified that Nayyar, an illegal immigrant from India, seemed “energetic in wanting to speak” during a car ride following his September 2009 arrest.
Kelley also said Nayyar’s then-wife, Maryna Nosava, urged him to cooperate with authorities when he called her from the FBI’s offices in lower Manhattan, Sweet noted.
According to the feds, Nayyar, 47, admitted selling a truck to an FBI informant under the belief it would be used to carry Hezbollah rockets that would be fired into Israel.
He also admitted selling a gun and a box of ammo that he wanted given to Hezbollah’s “mullah,” saying the terror leader “would love the gun and would want to buy many of them,” prosecutors charge
