A man accused of misrepresenting himself as an attorney to clients seeking legal help from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has a history of brushes with the law, court records show.
Morris J. Days, who is being sued in federal court for fraudulently representing himself as an attorney, was found guilty of several misdemeanor alcohol-related charges in Virginia in the early 2000s and served time in Philadelphia jails in the 1990s, court records obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show.
Days is a defendant in a lawsuit filed Nov. 18 in federal district court in the District of Columbia alleging he defrauded Muslims who had contacted CAIR's Virginia branch office for assistance with their legal problems.
Also named as defendants in the suit are the Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc., eight senior CAIR officials and two businesses described as holding companies for CAIR-owned real estate.
The lawsuit alleges that beginning around June 2006, CAIR-Virginia employed Days as its "resident attorney" and "manager" of its civil rights department. Four plaintiffs – Rene Arturo Lopez, Aquilla A.D. Turner, Mohammed Barakatullah Abdussalaam and Bayenah Nur – claim they paid money to Days for legal assistance that they never received. Read more ...
Morris J. Days, who is being sued in federal court for fraudulently representing himself as an attorney, was found guilty of several misdemeanor alcohol-related charges in Virginia in the early 2000s and served time in Philadelphia jails in the 1990s, court records obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show.
Days is a defendant in a lawsuit filed Nov. 18 in federal district court in the District of Columbia alleging he defrauded Muslims who had contacted CAIR's Virginia branch office for assistance with their legal problems.
Also named as defendants in the suit are the Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc., eight senior CAIR officials and two businesses described as holding companies for CAIR-owned real estate.
The lawsuit alleges that beginning around June 2006, CAIR-Virginia employed Days as its "resident attorney" and "manager" of its civil rights department. Four plaintiffs – Rene Arturo Lopez, Aquilla A.D. Turner, Mohammed Barakatullah Abdussalaam and Bayenah Nur – claim they paid money to Days for legal assistance that they never received. Read more ...
Source: IPT News
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