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NASCAR driver’s dad allegedly scammed
BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette
A man accused of scamming the father of a NASCAR Busch Series driver from McKinney out of hundreds of thousands of dollars received seven additional charges of perjury for giving false testimony during his criminal and civil trials.
Adulmalik Ado-Ibrahim, who has several aliases, including Malik Ado-Ibrahim, Malik Ibrahim and Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim, received seven third-degree felony counts of aggravated perjury from a Collin County grand jury last week stemming from alleged false statements he made during the pre-conference portion of his earlier felony trial and his civil trial, according to Collin County court records.
An earlier grand jury indicted Ado-Ibrahim, 43, back in March on a first-degree felony count of theft over $200,000 and a second-degree felony count of securing execution of a document by deception and filed the case in 380th District Court. The Collin County District Attorney’s Special Crimes Unit alleged Ado-Ibrahim stole about $625,000 from Robert G. Richardson Sr., of McKinney, father of Busch Series driver Robert Richardson Jr., by promising they would be deposited into a Bank of America trust account that did not exist. They also allege he stole $125,000 of the $625,000 from Richardson Sr. through four checks worth $31,250 each that he made out to Maverick Motorsports, Ado-Ibrahim’s company, according to the indictments.
During the course of the trial, Ado-Ibrahim’s attorney Charles Woods, of Dallas, filed a motion to reduce his bail to $25,000. According to the defense’s motion, his attorney claims that Robertson Sr. entered into a contract with Maverick Motorsports, which claims to have specialized in race promotions. The motion doesn’t list a date when the two entered into the contract or what the contract was for, but notes that Richardson Sr.’s son, who currently races for Jay Robinson Racing, wanted to be a race car driver and had raced in several “sanctioned NASCAR events.” The two eventually engaged in drafted settlement agreements that broke down in late 2005 and led Richardson Sr. to file a criminal complaint with the Collin County DA’s Office.
According to the indictments, the SCU alleges Ado-Ibrahim perjured himself seven times during hearings in his criminal trial and depositions in his civil trials.
The SCU claims he made “inconsistent statements” regarding plane tickets he purchased to Malaysia during a deposition in his civil trial in which he was being sued by Precision Preparation, a liability company in North Carolina. He claims the tickets were paid through an account and given back to an unidentified woman and in another instance, he claims he doesn’t know if they were paid through another company, according to the indictment.
The SCU also claims he gave conflicting testimony in two district courts about whether he owned a brokerage account. He said in the indigency hearing in 380th District Court that he did own the account, but denied he owned it in the oral deposition for his civil trial in 401st District Court, according to the indictment.
He also allegedly lied about $200,000 he received from another unidentified woman that he claims he placed in an off-shore account, and about money he paid to an unidentified man in his criminal trial, according to the indictment.
He also allegedly lied about a master’s degree he claims to have received from the University of Southern Carolina, and home-schooling his children during testimony he gave during a hearing in his criminal trial, according to the indictment.
He received seven additional third-degree felony counts of aggravated perjury from the grand jury last Thursday, each of which carries a $5,000 bond. He is still being held in Collin County Detention Center on a total bond of $1,535,000 as of Wednesday, according to jail records.
Attempts were made to reach a representative of the SCU and Ado-Ibrahim’s attorney, but phone calls were not returned by presstime. Attempts were also made to reach Richardson Sr. at his home and a representative of Richardson Jr., but neither could not be reached by presstime.
Contact Danny Gallagher at dgallagher@acnpapers.com. To post comments online, access this story on the Web at www.scntx.com.
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