Well, you can see why the people in tye current White House might feel that Chalabi really is their kind of guy.

In 1992, Chalabi was found guilty of 31 charges of embezzlement, theft, misuse of depositor funds, and so forth. This followed the collapse of the Petra Bank in Jordan which he had founded and headed. $300 million deposits in the bank just vanished.

He was sentenced to 31 years hard labour. However he'd skipped the country by that time, across the border into Syria. He said he was framed. Naturally.