Federal investigators are trying to unravel the far-flung business operations of a Pakistani-born Chicago man who is accused of providing logistical support to a key plotter in last year’s terrorist rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 170 people dead, including six Americans.
Law-enforcement officials tell The Daily Beast that the case against the Chicago businessman, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, is especially troubling because it is a rare example of how a seemingly legitimate American business—in this case, Mr. Rana’s visa-processing firm, First World Immigration—may have been used as a front for an overseas terrorist network that targets Americans.
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