(Lexington Herald Leader) A former Lexington imam was sentenced Monday to two years in prison in connection with a kidnapping plot.
Mahmoud Shaker Shalash pleaded guilty in January to federal charges of conspiring to kidnap someone and two counts of money laundering, according to court records.
Shalash will serve five years of supervised release at the end of his two-year prison sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The supervised release will include one year of home incarceration. Shalash was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and forfeit $81,861.99.
Shalash, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington, was also accused of being involved in a murder-for-hire conspiracy. That count was dismissed as part of the plea agreement, according to court records.
