Takia Walker, 29, had co-signed the vehicle's lease, acquired the car under falsepretense and allowed another person who wasn't insured to drive it, the official said.
They are urging legislators not to cave in to what amounts to brute intimidation under the falsepretense that those exercising it represent the entire American Islamic community.
Some of his victims included his three bodyguards who sources say had been unpaid for months and taxi owners whom he allegedly swindled in the falsepretense that he would buy them new cabs.