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NEW YORK — While FBI agents grilled a Denver airport-shuttle-van driver named Najibullah Zazi about a terror plot to attack New York City subways in the fall of 2009, Zazi’s father courted some trouble of his own.
Mohammed Wali Zazi is set to go on trial today in federal court in Brooklyn on charges he obstructed justice by lying to investigators and by tampering with and destroying evidence to cover up his son’s foiled scheme. He denies the allegations.
Mohammed Wali Zazi has been free on bond in Colorado, where he once ran a small limo service. He’s now so destitute that the judge agreed to have the government pay for his air travel to New York to face trial.
The defense says the father hasn’t spoken to his son in nearly two years.
