Dwight York, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dwight York

Nuwaubanism leader

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: writer, musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Dwight York

  • Dwight D.
  • York (born June 26, 1945), also known as Malachi Z.
  • York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr.
  • York, et alii, is an American criminal, musician, and writer who is known as the founding leader of various religious/political groups, including most notably the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, a religious ministry/Native American tribe that has existed in some form since the 1960s.
  • He is a convicted child molester. He and his group were based in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Around 1990 the community relocated to rural Putnam County, Georgia, where they built a large complex.
  • York was convicted in 2004 of child molestation and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
  • He is serving a 135-year sentence. York began his ministry in the late 1960s.
  • In 1967 he was preaching to the "Ansaaru Allah" (viz.
  • African Americans) in Brooklyn, New York, during the period of the Black Power movement.
  • He founded numerous orders under various names during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • These were at first based on pseudo-Islamic themes and Judaism (Nubian Islamic Hebrews).
  • Later he developed a theme derived from "Ancient Egypt," mixing ideas taken from black nationalism, cryptozoological and UFO religions, and popular conspiracy theory.
  • He last called his group the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, or Nuwabians. York and the Nuwaubians came under scrutiny in the early 1990s, after they built Tama-Re, an Egyptian-themed "city" for about a hundred of his followers, in rural Putnam County, Georgia.
  • Before York's trial, the community had been joined directly and in the area by hundreds of other followers from out of state, while alienating both black and white local residents.
  • The community was intensively investigated after numerous reports that York had molested numerous children of his followers. York was arrested in May 2002.
  • In 2004 he was convicted on federal charges of transporting minors across state lines for the purposes of sexual molestation, as well as racketeering and financial reporting violations.
  • York's case was reported as the largest prosecution for child molestation ever directed at a single person in the history of the United States, both in terms of number of victims and number of incidents.

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