Christopher Collins
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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