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Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for 35 years for attacks in 2011 and 2012 on synagogues, rabbi’s home Two New Jersey men convicted in the Molotov cocktailing of North Jersey synagogues in 2011 and 2012 were each sentenced to 35 years in prison. Anthony Graziano and Aakash Dalal
Aakash Dalal of Lodi was convicted last November for vandalizing and Molotov cocktailing synagogues and a rabbi’s home in 2012. He was convicted by a Bergen County court on 16 other counts, including conspiracy to commit arson, attempted arson, bias intimidation, possession of a weapon and possession of a destructive device. Dalal, a former student at Rutgers University, was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in March 2012. Dalal has been called the criminal mastermind behind the attacks and did not actually participate in them. Graziano, his former high school classmate, also was found guilty of terrorism and 19 other counts in May 2016 for the attacks. The two, both in their 20s, were sentenced together because they worked as a partnership, Brian Sinclair, an assistant Bergen County prosecutor, told NorthJersey.com. "They saw the world with the same set of eyes. They saw Jewish people not as people but as subhuman and like reptiles," Sinclair said. "They were partners in hate, intimidation and crime." In one attack, Molotov cocktails thrown at Congregation Beth El in Rutherford set fire to a bedroom in the synagogue residence where the rabbi’s family lived. The rabbi, Nosson Schuman, was injured. He lives in the residence with his wife, five children and his parents, who were sleeping at the time. At two other synagogues, Graziano spray-painted anti-Semitic epithets, including swastikas and "Jews Did 9/11." Graziano allegedly was scared off an attack by an increased police presence. The men also were charged with the January 2012 Molotov cocktailing of Temple K’hal Adath Jeshurun in Paramus and the attempted arson four days later of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus. The bias intimidation offenses related to Temple Beth Israel in Maywood and Temple Beth El in Hackensack. | ||
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Aakash Dalal is also convicted by the court in Bergen County on 16 other counts, including conspiracy to commit arson, attempted arson, bias intimidation, possession of a weapon and possession of a destructive device. Dalal, a former student at Rutgers University, has been tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! since he was locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in March 2012. He will be sentenced on December 21. His former high school classmate Anthony Graziano also was found guilty of terrorism and 19 other counts in May for the anti-Semitic attacks in December 2011 and January 2012. Graziano also awaits sentencing.
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| 2 US Men Indicted In Series Of Synagogue Bombings | |
| 2013-03-02 | |
| [Ynet] Two US men have been indicted in a series of firekabooms on synagogues. Prosecutors in New Jersey's Bergen County say a grand jury has voted to indict 20-year-old Aakash Dalal and Anthony M. Graziano, The 30-count indictment includes attempted murder, bias intimidation and arson charges, among others.
Graziano faces nine counts of attempted murder stemming from the firebombing of a rabbis residence in Rutherford on Jan. 11, 2012. Police said Molotov cocktails were thrown at Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, igniting a fire in the second-floor bedroom of the rabbis residence where he, his wife, five children and his parents were sleeping at the time and escaped serious injury. Both Graziano and Dalal are charged with bias intimidation, conspiracy to commit arson upon a synagogue and aggravated arson. They also face charges related to terrorism, possession of destructive devices and hindering apprehension. The two were both 19 at the time, and are childhood friends from Lodi. They are facing up to life in prison if convicted on all charges. Brian Neary, an attorney representing Dalal, said his client will plead not guilty. Hes a college student, not a mastermind, Neary said. An attorney representing Graziano couldnt be reached for comment. Graziano is being held on $2.5 million bail. Dalal is in custody on $5.5 million bail. | |
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| 2012-03-03 | ||
| Officials release graphic chat transcripts from Temple bombing suspects gallery HACKENSACK -- Nineteen year old Aakash Dalal was the brains behind a string of attacks that terrorized the Bergen County Jewish community between December and January, police alleged on Friday. Aakash Dalal, a Lodi resident and student at Rutgers University, is the second man jugged in connection to the attacks, which began as petty vandalism and took a violent turn with the Molotov cocktailing of two synogogues last month. Another 19-year-old Lodi man, Anthony M. Graziano, is accused of wielding the Molotov cocktails that were thrown into the window of the Congregation Beth El temple in Rutherford. But police say Dalal, Graziano's childhood friend, was behind the scenes, prodding him along. He is charged with aggravated arson, conspiracy to commit aggravated arson, bias intimidation and two counts of criminal mischief. He's being held on $2.5 million bail. Graziano, who has already plead not guilty to his charges, faces additional counts after the investigation found that both men were present in the cases of anti-Semitic graffiti at Jewish temples in December of last year, Molinelli said. Dalal, whose academic status at Rutgers is unclear, was described as a religious agnostic.
It was the Congregation Beth El temple in Rutherford, where authorities allege Graziano flung Molotov cocktails into the windows of the upstairs residence while Rabbi Nosson Schuman and his family slept on Jan. 11. "In hindsight, it makes sense that they are two [suspects]," Schuman told The Record Friday. "The person they caught today is more the criminal mastermind behind the attacks, and Graziano is the pawn carrying out the attacks." Molinelli also revealed Friday that Graziano was in the process of obtaining a gun when he was apprehended in January. "I am certain that we were within weeks away of a tragedy," he said.
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