LEWISTON — Maine’s highest court rejected arguments that the judge erred when he presided last year over the trial of a local couple who own the city’s first halal market and convicted them of welfare fraud. In upholding Androscoggin County Superior Court Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford’s lower court rulings, Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Donald […]
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Lewiston couple appeals to high court for new trial in welfare fraud case
PORTLAND — Attorneys for a Lewiston couple that owns the city’s first halal market and were convicted last year of welfare fraud argued before the state’s highest court Wednesday that they should be given a new trial. Roda O. Abdi and Ali-Nassir H. Ahmed were convicted in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn of theft […]
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Lewiston market owners to serve 19 months in jail
AUBURN — A Lewiston couple who owns Lewiston’s first halal market was sentenced Tuesday to a total of 19 months in jail for bilking the federal government out of more than $46,000 in housing subsidies. Roda Abdi, 46, and her husband, Ali-Nassir Ahmed, 54, both of 208 Ash St., Lewiston, appeared in the Androscoggin County […]
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Welfare fraud trial on hold pending transcript
AUBURN — The trial of a Lewiston couple charged with bilking the federal government out of thousands of dollars in housing money is expected to wrap up outside the courtroom. Defense lawyers for Roda Abdi, 45, and Ali-Nassir Ahmed, 53, notified the trial judge in Androscoggin County Superior Court in mid-December that they didn’t intend […]
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Realtor testifies in Lewiston fraud trial
AUBURN — A Lewiston Realtor testified Wednesday that he sold two buildings to a couple who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash for them. Prosecutors said the couple, Roda Abdi, 45, and Ali-Nassir Ahmed, 53, both of Lewiston, was bilking the federal government out of tens of thousands of dollars in housing benefits […]
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Welfare fraud trial of Lewiston market owners gets underway
AUBURN — The trial of a Lewiston couple accused of stealing thousands of dollars in federal housing money began Tuesday as prosecutors sought to show the couple lied about their income and assets. Roda Abdi, 45, and Ali-Nassir Ahmed, 53, are charged with theft by deception, a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 […]