USA v. ISLAM, et al.

  1. July 16, 2024

    Ex-Philly Charter School Exec Gets 7 Years For Embezzlement

    Abdur Rahim Islam, who ran famed R&B producer Kenny Gamble's Philadelphia-based housing and education nonprofit, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization and using the ill-gotten gains for Caribbean vacations.

  2. July 08, 2024

    Philly Charter School Exec Sentenced To 1½ Years In Prison

    Shahied Dawan, a former nonprofit executive for a Philadelphia charter school and low-income housing nonprofit founded by R&B producer Kenny Gamble, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for conspiring to conceal embezzlement from the organization.

  3. March 20, 2024

    Philly Charter School Exec Convicted Of Embezzlement

    A nonprofit executive was convicted Wednesday in Pennsylvania federal court on all 18 counts of siphoning funds from a tax-exempt educational and housing organization to live lavishly, while the same jury found a colleague guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud but absolved him of other charges.

  4. March 18, 2024

    Philly Nonprofit Execs Lived Large On Co. Money, Jury Told

    Jurors should not believe arguments from two nonprofit executives who are former associates of City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson who said they simply made bookkeeping mistakes and didn't concoct an alleged scheme to spend company money on things like huge bonuses, lavish vacations and bribing a Milwaukee school official, federal prosecutors said Monday. 

  5. August 02, 2023

    Nonprofit Execs Can't Nix RICO Charge After Bribery Acquittal

    A Pennsylvania federal judge rejected a request from two Philadelphia nonprofit executives indicted alongside Councilman Kenyatta Johnson in a corruption prosecution to toss conspiracy charges against them since a federal jury had earlier acquitted them of bribery.

  6. November 02, 2022

    Philly Councilman, Wife Acquitted In Bribery Retrial

    Philadelphia Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and his wife were acquitted Wednesday in a corruption prosecution alleging the longtime politician collected bribes in exchange for using his official role to help a financially strapped nonprofit enterprise's real estate projects, handing another defeat to prosecutors whose first attempt to try the case ended with a deadlocked jury.