OAKLAND — A Richmond man going through dozens of fraud fees in an alleged $22 million scheme was detained by U.S. Marshals at a courtroom listening to Wednesday, after prosecutors blamed him when a key witness vanished for 2 months after being subpoenaed to testify.
Dahood Sharieff Bey, also referred to as Attila Colar, was hit with a superseding indictment final month, alleging that he continued to make fraudulent Paycheck Safety Program mortgage functions even after he was charged with fraud final 12 months and launched on bond. However days earlier than the grand jury proceedings, a key witness named Mansoor Bey disappeared, and didn’t floor once more till after federal brokers went on the lookout for him, in response to authorities.
In courtroom data asking for Dahood Bey’s bond to be revoked, prosecutors blamed him for Mansoor Bey’s disappearance, writing that Mansoor Bey had a stroke two years in the past and requires help for his day-to-day life. He organized for his Social Safety checks to go to Dahood Bey, and was subpoenaed to testify with immunity proper earlier than he vanished, prosecutors mentioned.
When federal brokers confirmed up at Dahood Bey’s Richmond residence on the lookout for Mansoor Bey, they had been greeted with an indication on the skin that mentioned the occupants had been all quarantining as a result of COVID-19. They left a observe asking for Mansoor’s whereabouts, and inside a day had been contacted by a federal public defender who mentioned he’d been retained to characterize Mansoor Bey.
“This sequence of occasions demonstrates, as authorities counsel had proffered through the February 8, 2022, listening to that the lacking witness was certainly below the (Dahood Bey’s) management,” two U.S. Attorneys wrote in courtroom papers.
Mansoor Bey ultimately turned up in individual. In line with Richmond police, he was arrested Tuesday night after displaying as much as the police division to re-register as a intercourse offender. When an officer ran his title, they realized Bey had an energetic arrest warrant as an absconded federal witness and took him into custody.
Dahood Bey’s lawyer responded in courtroom data by saying prosecutors fell far wanting their burden to show that Mansoor Bey’s disappearance had something to do with Dahood Bey or the grand jury subpoena.
“The USA should make a displaying by clear and convincing proof that Mr. Colar tampered with any witness. An assertion of ‘risk’ is inadequate,” protection lawyer Mark Axup wrote.
Dahood Bey was initially charged in October with PPP fraud, tax fraud, and different offenses. Final month, prosecutors secured a 31-count indictment alleging that he continued to have interaction in wire fraud schemes as just lately as Feb. 1, and that he destroyed proof after studying of the investigation towards him.
The charging paperwork reference Bey’s most up-to-date fraud conviction, in 2015, which stemmed from a safety firm he created referred to as BMT Worldwide Safety Providers. The agency submitted bogus bid paperwork to the Port of Oakland and different businesses whereas searching for — and typically successful — thousands and thousands of dollars in public contracts.
In November 2015, after pleading no contest to a fraud cost, Bey was sentenced to 5 years in state jail.
On the time, Dahood Bey was the chief of a Your Black Muslim Bakery spinoff group that fashioned after the bakery’s chief, Yusuf Bey IV, was arrested for ordering the homicide of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Submit. Bailey was killed as a result of he was engaged on a narrative concerning the bakery’s monetary issues, and since Bey IV harbored a grudge towards the longtime Bay Space journalist who lined the kid molestation trial of the elder Yusuf Bey, who based the bakery within the Sixties.
Dahood Bey posed as a former FBI agent named David Johnson, claiming at numerous occasions to be a graduate of Harvard, Princeton and Golden Gate universities and a “navy marshal.” He was charged by Alameda County prosecutors after an investigation into BMT by this newspaper.