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| Scam in Prestige DC Mosque Results in Hung Jury |
| 2009-04-01 |
| The center's business manager has been accused of stealing $430,000 from the mosque This is the Mosque used by the diplomatic community in the embassy area of Washington D.C. in a complicated check scam. The key witness against him is the center's director and imam, a Saudi who says he noticed the crime when he spotted too many checks being written to a gardener. He noticed it on the 58th bogus check he wrote; the first 57 he missed The Iranian-born business manager who for many years was a close friend of the Iman has a different story. He says the imam told him to take the money. About half was used to pay off debts and living expenses of two women who were close to the imam, and the rest was used to pay informants for tips about the mosque's security, he said. It was enough to confound a jury, which deadlocked 9 to 3 after the business manager's three-week trial last May. the Govt will try the business manager again; the business manager has accused the Iman of perjury |
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