Abouammo v. United States Brief: The Government Should Not Have Unbounded Discretion to Select Venue & Vicinage

Mike Fox and Matthew Cavedon

San Francisco-based FBI agents flew to Seattle to question Ahmad Abouammo at his home. They suspected Mr. Abouammo, a former Twitter employee, had disclosed a Saudi dissident’s private Twitter account information to an associate of a Saudi royal. The government alleged that during the meeting at his home, Abouammo went upstairs, created a false invoice, and emailed it to the agents waiting downstairs. Abouammo was indicted in the Northern District of California...