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Moose M. Scheib (born June 21, 1980) is a Lebanese-born American attorney, television producer, and real estate specialist.Claire Ferris-Lay and Kat Slowe, (2009-08-02), http://www.arabianbusiness.com/30-under-30-151844.html?view=profile&itemid=151848, Retrieved July 24, 2012 He was the CEO of CBIG, a firm set up to market EB-5 visas (which allow international investors to obtain a US
Retrieved July 24, 2012
Moose M. Scheib (born June 21, 1980) is a Lebanese-born American attorney, television producer, and real estate specialist.Claire Ferris-Lay and Kat Slowe, (2009-08-02), http://www.arabianbusiness.com/30-under-30-151844.html?view=profile&itemid=151848, Retrieved July 24, 2012 He was the CEO of CBIG, a firm set up to market EB-5 visas (which allow international investors to obtain a US green card
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by investing in US companies), to Middle East investors.
Early life and education
Scheib was born inBeirut, Lebanon
Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...
during the Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War ( ) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
The religious diversity of the ...
, the son of a newspaper editor and government official. His family immigrated to the U.S. (Toledo, Ohio
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) when he was seven years old and eventually settled in Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit, Dearborn borders Detroit to the south and west, roughly west of downtown Detroit. In the 2020 United States ...
. When Scheib was twelve, his father – who sought work as a truck driver to keep the family afloat – suffered the first in a series of strokes. As a result, his mother began work at a metro-Detroit restaurant and Scheib began working and caring for his ill father and siblings.
Scheib graduated from Dearborn High School in 1998. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & Management from Albion College
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and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School
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.Jake Webber, (2011-4-15)Retrieved July 24, 2012
Career
In 2007, Scheib's company, Mizna, began renegotiating mortgages to help homeowners and lenders avoid foreclosure. By September 2008, the company, which sourced 10% of its clients from the loanmod.com website Scheib bought in 2007, had renegotiated over 5,000 mortgages. Scheib founded Mizna Entertainment, which produced the Arab American Comedy Show in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and viral MTV spoof videos that include Arab CRIBS, Nexted, and Made.Community service and awards
Scheib received the 2004 Arab American Institute Raymond Jallow Award for Public Service and the 2010Arabian Business
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Magazine 30 under 30 Award for the Next Generation of Arab Leaders.AAIUSA, (2004), http://www.aaiusa.org/pages/AAIF-Youth-Leadership-Awards-Recipients , Retrieved July 24, 2012 He is also co-founder and former board chairman of the National Arab Orchestra.
See also
* History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro DetroitReferences