Herald-Leader Staff Report
A Lexington man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for laundering money for a $60 million organized retail theft ring. Abduhl Sulaiman, 47, owned the Stop N Shop Discount Food on Winburn Drive in Lexington.
Federal prosecutors say he cashed checks for a retail theft ring organized by a Louisville business called Alpha Trading, which allegedly dealt in stolen baby formula and health and beauty products.
In June, a federal jury in Lexington convicted Sulaiman of money laundering, conspiracy and failure to file currency transaction reports.
Sulaiman was sentenced by Judge Jennifer Coffman on Friday at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
He needs to rott in hell,What is with all these people comming to this country and making more money than the harder working people. Hell they don’t have to pay taxes for years because they that is the goverment said these people need a chance to have a new start. And in the mean time they rob the americans blind,what is six years he needed to just get sent back to his own country without a dime in his pocket and then let him look back and see how well he had it. One Big Pissed Off American
Just because he has a muslem name doesn’t mean he isn’t american. This guy has lived in the states forever. That store has been there as long as I can remember. Maybe he was born in America. Maybe he is a Kentuckian. And Imigrints due pay taxes you dumb @$$! Why don’t you look at a mexicans pay stub I bet you will see taxes and social security taken out.
The act of “money laundering” was not invented during the Prohibition era in the United States, but many techniques were developed and refined then. Many methods were devised to disguise the origins of money generated by the sale of then-illegal alcoholic beverages.