New Orleans suspects terror of Deloitte ties, firm assistance authority

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Army veteran who officials say carried out the terrorist attack at a New Year’s Eve celebration in New Orleans on Wednesday worked with the consulting firm Deloitte, earning about $10,000 a month.

In a statement, Deloitte said Jabbar had “served in a staff-level role” since being hired in 2021 and that the company was doing everything it could to help authorities.

The consulting firm Deloitte confirmed that New Orleans terror suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar was on staff by 2021. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

“We are shocked to learn of reports today that the individual identified as a suspect had some association with our firm,” Deloitte said in a statement. FOX Business Wednesday evening. “The named individual has served in a staff-level role since being hired in 2021.”

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The firm added: “Like everyone else, we are outraged by this shameful and senseless act of violence and are doing everything we can to assist the authorities in their investigation.”

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in the Bourbon Street terror attack. (@FBI via X/Fox News)

Authorities identified Jabbar as the man who drove a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the early hours of the new year, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others. Jabbar, who died at the scene of the attack, was a US citizen who lived in Texas.

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Despite Jabbar’s well-paid position at Deloitte, he had financial problems, according to him USA Today. The outlet said court documents from his second divorce in 2022 show Jabbar’s $120,000 base salary at Deloitte, and the suspect warned his lawyer that he was in danger of losing his home.

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“Time is of the essence,” Jabbar wrote his lawyer in an email in January 2022, according to the report. “I can’t afford the house payment. It’s over $27,000 overdue and in danger of foreclosure if we delay the divorce.”