The civil health care fraudlawsuitin U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages and civil penalties for a scheme that the government said has been carried out since 2005.
In a similar incident in 2008, Executive Director Nihad Awad and his staff were served papers in a more recent lawsuit for fraud filed against CAIR by Muslim, African American, and Hispanic families.
Well nothing really, except for possible violations of some federal criminal statutes (wire fraud? even perhaps racketeering?) and collusion in filing of a frivolous lawsuit.
Combined with Monday's settlement in the lawsuit filed against them by the trustee representing victims of the Bernard Madoff fraud, the sales represent a major boon to Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz.
In November 2004, two weeks before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraudlawsuit against Black and Radler, Black resigned as chairman of the company.