The former head of a Putnam County cult, now serving a 135-year sentence on child-molestation charges, wants $2 billion. And he wants it in 20 days. Dwight D. York filed a …
Dwight D. York (born June 26, 1935), also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi, et alii, is an American, musician, and writer best known as the founding leader of several Black Muslim groups in New York, most notably the Nuwaubian Nation, a new religious movement that has existed in some form since the 1960s. He is a convicted child molester. ...
Professional Experience. Mallika Magner began practice in the Gunnison Valley in 1996, first working with Russell & Wilderson, PC in Gunnison, before opening a practice in Crested Butte in 1997. She had previously practiced in New York City, after her admission to the bar in 1988. She practiced criminal trial and appellate prosecution and criminal trial and appellate defense.
Assigned counsel, The Bronx Defenders, by attorney Malika Lubell-Doughtie, represented Smith at arraignment. The matter was adjourned to February 17, 2017. On February 16, 2017, defendant's case was scheduled before this court. Before the parties appeared that day, the People interviewed Smith.
Florence, ColoradoHe is currently being held at the federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado. After his conviction, federal prosecutors seized the Eatonton compound and demolished it.Dec 14, 2018
In 2004, York was convicted of five counts of racketeering and six counts of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes. He was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison, where he remains at 73.Jul 8, 2018
The Nuwaubian Nation is a religious, black separatist group formed in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1970s. Led by Dr. Dwight York, the Nuwaubians underwent a number of doctrinal and locational changes over the course of their movement.
In 2000, York moved the group to rural Georgia, but he was arrested in 2002 and later pleaded guilty to various state charges, including 40 counts of aggravated child molestation and 34 counts of child molestation, according to the SPLC.Mar 22, 2017
York's groups had a variety of names and functions: quasi-religious, fraternal, and tribal. They were called "Holy Tabernacle Ministries", "Egiptian [ sic] Church of Karast," "Holy Seed Baptist Synagogue", "Ancient Mystic Order of Melchizedek", "Ancient Egiptian [ sic] Order", "All Eyez on Egypt", "United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors", "Yamassee Native American Tribe", "Washitaw Tribe", and "Lodge 19 of the Ancient and Mystic Order of Malachizodok." While drawing from various religious and historical themes, Malachi York continued to focus on Nubia. He promoted a design featuring an ankh in the middle of a six-pointed star of Judaism and Islamic crescent, a symbol used by the Ansarullah Community. The ankh is associated with pre-Islamic Sudan, Nubia.
135 years in prison. Dwight D. York (born June 26, 1945 ), also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr. York, et alii, is an American criminal, musician, and writer who is known as the founding leader of various religious/political groups, including most notably the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, ...
According to a birth certificate issued in the United States, Dwight D. York was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Other sources give his birthplace as New Jersey, New York, Baltimore, or Takoradi, Ghana. York says that he was raised in Massachusetts, and at the age of seven went to Aswan, Egypt, to learn about Islam.
Dwight D. York (born June 26, 1945 ), also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr. York, et alii, is an American criminal, musician, and writer who is known as the founding leader of various religious/political groups, including most notably the United Nation ...
He promoted a design featuring an ankh in the middle of a six-pointed star of Judaism and Islamic crescent, a symbol used by the Ansarullah Community. The ankh is associated with pre-Islamic Sudan, Nubia. Dwight York changed his name legally in 1990 to "Issa al Haadi al Mahdi" when he was still living in Brooklyn.
As an adolescent, he moved with his family to Teaneck , New Jersey . In the late 1960s York, calling himself "Imaam Isa", combined elements of the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earths and Freemasonry, and founded a quasi- Muslim black nationalist movement and community.