Government seeks York's money, properties

Macon Telegraph/July 23, 2003
By Rob Peecher
Eatonton -- The U.S. Attorney's office in Macon has filed a civil suit seeking the forfeiture of money and property from cult leader Malachi York.

The property includes the 476-acre Putnam County compound where York and his followers, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, erected pyramids, a sphinx and other Egyptian-style statues. The government also wants York's home that is in an upscale Athens neighborhood. York's followers refer to the home as "the mansion."

Also, U.S. District Court Judge Ashley Royal will preside over York's federal criminal case after Judge Hugh Lawson recused himself, according to the federal clerk of court's office.

Lawson had rejected a negotiated plea agreement between the government and York's defense team because he believed the 15-year negotiated sentence was too lenient. One of York's attorneys said this week that the defense is hopeful that Royal will accept the negotiated plea.

In addition to the two properties being sought through the civil suit, the government is also seeking the forfeiture of $430,000 seized by federal agents who raided the compound and York's Athens home when he was arrested in May of 2002.

U.S. Attorney Max Wood said Tuesday that when Lawson rejected the negotiated plea the government effectively lost the $430,000 which York had forfeited as part of the plea. The civil suit seeks to allow the government to regain that money and adds the two properties.

"What we're doing is we filed a civil action, a forfeiture action, against the money seized back in May of 2002 and against the property, and that is a result of the plea being rejected by Judge Lawson," Wood said.

Though York was for several years the sole owner of the property in Putnam County, shortly before his arrest he deeded the property to three members of his group: Ethel Richardson, Anthony Evans and Patrice Evans. To take the property, the government will have to prove that York effectively maintained control of the property and conducted criminal activity there.

"We have a burden of proving that criminal activity was associated with that property," Wood said.

The three people who hold title to the land "would be entitled to respond to any forfeiture complaint we filed," Wood said.

The government has maintained possession of the cash since it was seized during York's arrest and during the raids on the two properties, and will hold it while it is still subject to civil litigation.

After his arrest, York was indicted by a federal grand jury and a Putnam County grand jury. In January, just before the trial was to begin on the state charges, York pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of attempting to evade federal financial reporting requirements and one count of transporting minors across state lines for the purpose of having sex with them. He then pleaded guilty to 77 state charges mostly involving child molestation and aggravated child molestation.

Judge recuses himself from York's trial

Macon Telegraph/July 22, 2003
By Rob Peecher

The judge hearing the case of cult leader and confessed child molester Malachi York has stepped aside at the request of York's lawyers.

In an order filed late last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Hugh Lawson recused himself from the case.

Lawson rejected a plea agreement reached between the U.S. Attorney's Office and the defense, and his decision opens the door again for York's guilty plea to go through.

In January, York pleaded guilty in both federal and state courts to numerous charges involving child molestation. In June, Lawson rejected York's deal with federal prosecutors, after telling lawyers in the case that he thought the proposed 15-year sentence was too lenient.

Early this month, York's lawyers asked Lawson to remove himself from the case, arguing that he had interfered in the plea-bargain process by stating what he thought would be an appropriate sentence.

Both guilty pleas still stand, though York has the opportunity to withdraw the plea because Lawson rejected the plea agreement.

Manny Arora, one of York's defense attorneys, said Monday that the defense will ask the new judge to accept that plea.

"We're not sure who the new judge is or anything about him," Arora said. "We will also ask this judge to accept the plea as it was negotiated, but the U.S. Attorney may have a different point of view, and the new judge, obviously, has to make his own decision as to whether he will accept this plea or not."

U.S. Attorney Max Wood declined to comment on whether the government would oppose the guilty plea. However, there have been two hearings since Lawson first rejected the plea agreement, and York has not withdrawn his guilty plea at either.

According to the plea agreement, York would have spent 15 years in a federal prison. A 15-year negotiated state sentence was to run concurrent with the federal sentence. In his order recusing himself, Lawson said he rejected the plea agreement in May because he thought York should serve at least 20 years in prison.

May 28, Lawson "met with counsel for the government and counsel for the defendant for the purpose of advising them that the court had decided to reject the plea agreement previously negotiated by the government and the defendant," Lawson wrote in his order. "The court explained that after consideration ... the court had come to the conclusion that the 15-year sentence to be imposed under the plea agreement was too lenient."

According to the order, Lawson then "indicated that a sentence of 20 years might be acceptable."

July 10, York's lawyers Ed Garland and Arora argued that Lawson had improperly participated in the negotiations and asked that the judge remove himself from the case. Last Friday, Lawson signed the order doing just that.

The U.S. district clerk of court's office will be responsible for appointing a new judge to the case, but Wood said he didn't know how long that would take.

"The ruling doesn't change anything we're doing," Wood said. "We're preparing for trial. We have many excellent judges in our district, and we'll be ready for trial whoever the judge is, wherever the trial is and whenever the trial is."

May 8, 2002, federal agents arrested York in the parking lot of a Milledgeville grocery store. Simultaneously, FBI SWAT teams and local sheriff's deputies raided the 476-acre farm in Putnam County where York and his followers, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, were based. Federal agents also raided York's home in Athens.

The arrest was the culmination of months of investigation by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and the FBI into allegations by the children of members of his group that York had molested them.

Just before the trial on a 208-count state indictment was to begin in early February, York pleaded guilty to two federal counts of transporting children across state lines for the purpose of having sex with them and for attempting to evade financial reporting requirements. He also pleaded guilty to 77 state charges mostly consisting of child molestation and aggravated child molestation.

Since Lawson rejected York's plea agreement, two hearings have been held at the federal courthouse in Macon. Both hearings were notable for the number of York's supporters who attended. More than 250 Nuwaubians attended the first hearing in late June, and about 150 attended the hearing earlier this month.

During the June hearing, York asserted that he is an American Indian, "a sovereign" not subject to federal law. He argued with his attorneys and told a judge that according to United Nations treaties he should be turned over to his "tribe" for trial.

York and his followers moved to Putnam County from New York in 1993. Beginning in 1998, York and the Nuwaubians have been involved in a court battle with Putnam County officials over zoning violations.

The Nuwaubian compound, at 404 Shady Dale Road, features two pyramids, a sphinx and other Egyptian-style statues and building facades.

Nuwaubians Are Threatening My Life!

I never thought that someday I'll be blogging like this. And so I designed a website for All Eyes on Egypt Bookstore for the Milledgeville branch. The so called owner name is Ahmed. Who believes that he is the incarnation of "Muhammad". I designed the website for him and his wife, the project started last year of May. And Finally completed and uploaded the site around June. I didn't charge them anything for designing the sites. But I also didn't want to pay for their monthly hosting fee. So I charge them under $20 per month and billed them for it. He paid and everything was going great. 'Till their customers started calling and paypal started calling for undelivered items. He said that the books that he have online, he doesn't have on his inventory. So I asked him to send me their inventory listing. His response "Just copy everything from Bilha's website" which is www.alleyesonegypt.net

How the hek are you gonna have the same inventory as Bilha's. Especially if your problem is, your customers are not getting what they paid for! I couldn't figure out for nothing why Ahmed didn't want to give me his inventory list. That's not how you run a business. You suppose to purchase your inventory, stock them, and when demands calls for such product, you have it.

I realized by now that this is more work than what I anticipated. Because Ahmed didn't want to do any of the work. It would have been so much easier if he produced a database or print out of his available items. I updated his website as much as I could without Ahmed providing information. Then finally he gave me a list of CDs and DVDs that he reproduced himself. and added those. For an entire year no problem.

He called me up last June and said that he have someone to come down from New York to update his website and needed access to his control panel. Gave it to him. and everything is fine. He updated his website and everything seems to be going good. Then I get a call from this Maniac this weekend, threatening my life, my privacy, daughter and friend!

Apparently his website BANDWIDTH ran out! So I get all kinds of calls from Ahmed and his associates saying that I'm hi-jacking his website. THIS INCONSIDERATE BASTARD ACTUALLY THINKS THAT I'M FUCKING WITH HIS SITE ON PURPOSE. Then his dumb-ass web designer doens't know what's causing it. Or atleast that's what he tells Ahmed. I'll tell you what's causing it STUPID ASS AHMED!!!, your webdesigner is fucking with your webspace. He hosting files on your space YOU DUMB FUCKED!!!

I am so pissed off because he threatened me and my child! Worst of all this nigga goes to my house, take shit out of my mailbox and remove my label on my mailbox! And then his stupid ass call me and leave a message and tells me what he just did! HE LEFT A THREATENING LETTER ON MAILBOX! I'll will be posting all of the phone messages he left me. and the Threatening Letters.

You know, what I don't get is, he calls himself Nuwaubian, Sells Nuwaubian books and things, but then threaten me a Nuwaubian. But that nigga wouldn't dare mess with the people who locked his MASTER TEACHER, Dr. Malachi Z. York for 135 years.

YOU PUNK BITCH!!!

What is Nuwaubu?

excerpt from

Nuwaubu and Amunnubi Rooakhptah

Fact or Fiction?

Ans: Nuwau-Bu is the science of Sound Right Reasoning. Nuwau-Bu is Right Knowledge, Right Wisdom, and a Right Overstanding. Nuwaubu is the science of experience, evidence and reason. Right Knowledge, Right Wisdom, and a Right Overstanding is what you need to restore your powerful mind of right reason. Nuwau-Bu informs you that knowledge is knowing. To know is knowledge for the first four letters of knowledge is KNOW. Knowledge is mental power with correction information. Wisdom is knowing how and when to use knowledge. The first three letters of Wisdom is WIS. Having the phonetics of the word Wise. And an overstanding is receipt of knowledge by the mind and is the unity of knowledge and wisdom.

Nuwaubu and Amunnubi Rooakhptah Fact or Fiction

excerpt from the book on page 31

"...And let me make this point clear rightn ow, If i was born in Europe, If I was born in China, If I was born in India, If I was born in Alaska, Africa or America, that would not change what I am teaching and the effect it's having on the world and why you have to use what I teach to try to reach your people. We don't need, and I've written about this many times, and ties to Sudan or the Mahdi Family. Our facts stand for themselves. I am linked to the STARS and BEYOND."

on page 33

"... Ques: What does Nuwaubu Deal with?

Ans: The word Nuwaubu gets into some advanced Mathematics and Sciences. It's the key unlocking the spell but only those who will approach it with a sincere heart and open mind and controlled emotions.

The root of the word Nuwaubu is a derivative of the Ashuric/Syriac (Arabic) word Nuwb. Another derivative of Nuwb is Nubuwa which means "Prophethood, Prophecy". Nubuwa can also be found in Aramic (Hebrew) Nebuwah "A prediction, teaching" from the root word Nuwb "To Sprout, To Germinate". Nubun which in Cuneiform Means "Before The Light, Presenter Of News".

Nubuwa can be found in Qur'aan 3:79, 6:89, 29:27, 45:16, 57:26."