Former Columbus Islamic center leader given prison sentence for stealing more than $80K

August 10, 2023   

(Columbus Dispatch) A Gahanna man who previously ran a local Islamic center has been sentenced to prison for embezzling more than $80,000 from the center and others.

Ahmed A. Sh. Ahmed, 44, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. to four months in federal prison, followed by four months in a halfway house. Ahmed will then have to serve 12 months of home confinement.

Ahmed previously pled guilty in October in U.S. District Court in Columbus to federal charges of committing wire fraud, submitting a false statement and making a false statement. He had faced a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud charges.

Read more (alt: Yahoo version).

Related Articles

Clerics & Preachers

Florida imam: Palestine must be liberated, even at cost of millions of martyrs Hasan Sabri says ‘Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land, and there is no difference between what was occupied in 1948 and 1967’

November 3, 2018   

(Times of Israel) During a recent sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, an imam called for the “liberation” of Palestine, even at the cost of tens of millions of Muslim lives. “If a land is occupied or plundered, it should […]

Government & Politics

Turkey: US citizen Daesh terrorist repatriated ‘Total of 3 foreign national terrorists to be deported from our country today,’ says Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman

November 11, 2019   

(Anadolu) Turkey has repatriated one Daesh/ISIS terrorist from the U.S. and this week will deport several more terrorists back to Germany, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday. “A U.S. citizen Daesh terrorist has been repatriated after the completion of legal procedures,” […]