The Washington Examiner story below (highlights added) reports the latest
blow to CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Massive fraud, cover-up by CAIR exposed in federal
lawsuit
http://www.examiner.com/article/massive-fraud-cover-up-by-cair-exposed-federal-lawsuit?cid=db_articles
BY: CHRISTOPHER COLLINS
Nihad Awad, CAIR
Executive Director
November 26, 2012
Last Friday,
the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C. and the American Freedom Law
Center (AFLC) said that they filed a devastating legal
brief supported by hundreds of pages of evidence, asking a federal judge to
find the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) liable to
five of its former clients for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty,
and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In a release to the
media today, AFLC stated:
“The legal
brief demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that CAIR is a criminal
organization that deceptively holds itself out to the public as the nation's
largest Muslim-American civil
rights organization."
"The brief and supporting evidence were
filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in two companion
cases, Saiyed v. CAIR and Lopez
v. CAIR, in which David Yerushalmi is lead counsel. The brief and supporting
evidence overwhelmingly demonstrate that CAIR was involved in a massive criminal
fraud and cover-up that injured numerous client-victims who had looked to CAIR
for legal assistance, yet the CAIR "attorney" allegedly handling their cases was
in fact not an attorney.”
Yerushalmi, who is also Co-Founder and Senior
Counsel of AFLC, commented, "The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is an
organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of
stealth Jihad in the United States," referring to the fact that CAIR was named
by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy
Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.
"According to the facts
that are carefully laid out in our legal brief and fully supported by the record
evidence," Yerushalmi explained, "CAIR has engaged in a massive criminal fraud
in which numerous CAIR clients have been victimized, and because of the CAIR
cover-up many still don't realize it. The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims
and non-Muslims alike demonstrate that it is only looking out for itself and its
ongoing efforts to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable
donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization."
AFLC went on to say that five former clients of CAIR
filed the two lawsuits in federal court alleging common law and statutory fraud,
breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress
against CAIR. These two lawsuits followed an earlier lawsuit which had
also alleged that CAIR's fraudulent conduct amounted to racketeering, a federal
RICO crime. In that case, the court dismissed the RICO counts, concluding that
CAIR's conduct as alleged was fraudulent but not a technical violation of RICO.
The two civil lawsuits were filed by Yerushalmi on January 6, 2010, and because
they arise out of the same facts, the cases were consolidated.
AFLC
stated, “The supporting evidence, which was compiled after more than a year and
a half of contentious discovery that involved numerous document requests,
motions to compel the production of documents that CAIR was concealing, and
multiple depositions of high-ranking CAIR officials, shows that Morris Days, the
"Resident Attorney" and "Civil Rights Manager" at the now defunct CAIR-MD/VA
chapter in Herndon, Virginia, was in fact not an attorney and that he failed to
provide legal services for clients who came to CAIR for legal representation.
The evidence also shows that CAIR knew
of this fraud and purposefully conspired with Days to keep the CAIR clients from
discovering that their legal matters were being mishandled or not handled at
all. While Yerushalmi and AFLC represent the five plaintiffs in these two
lawsuits, three of whom are Muslim Americans, according to CAIR's internal
documents; there were many more victims of the CAIR fraud scheme.”
“As set forth in the court filings, CAIR knew or should have known that
Days was not a lawyer when it hired him. But, like many organizations accused of
wrongdoing, things got worse when CAIR officials were confronted with clear
evidence of Days' fraudulent conduct. Rather than come clean and attempt to
rectify past wrongs, CAIR conspired with Days to conceal and further the fraud.
To this end, CAIR officials purposefully concealed the truth about Days from the
clients, law enforcement, and the media. When CAIR did receive calls from irate
clients about Days' failure to provide competent legal services, CAIR
fraudulently deceived them about Days' relationship with CAIR, suggesting that
he was never actually employed by CAIR.”
Robert Muise, co-counsel in the lawsuit and
Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented, "The overwhelming evidence
marshaled in this case will finally put to rest the myth fabricated by CAIR's PR
machine and perpetrated by a complicit media that this is a legitimate
Muslim-American civil rights organization.”
“This lawsuit strips
away CAIR's veil of legitimacy."
The Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and its sister organization, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
(ADC), have been controversial over the years and recently were systematically
involved in the 2012 presidential elections in getting American Muslims out
to vote for President Obama in the swing states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania. Those states election results became controversial due to voter
irregularities and allegations
of voter fraud in favor of President Obama.
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