Iraqi-Born Doctor Guilty of Charity Fraud (washingtonpost.com)

Iraqi-Born Doctor Guilty of Charity Fraud (washingtonpost.com): "Iraqi-Born Doctor Guilty of Charity Fraud
Associated Press
Friday, February 11, 2005; Page A26
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 10 -- An Iraqi-born doctor was convicted Thursday of operating a charity that violated a U.S. embargo and defrauding donors who gave $5 million to help his native country.
The federal jury convicted Rafil Dhafir, an oncologist, of conspiring to violate the embargo, money laundering, tax evasion and Medicare fraud after a trial that lasted more than three months. He was acquitted on one of 11 counts of money laundering. "