NJ - One of the two men accused in a series of firebomb
attacks on synagogues across northern New Jersey will have to come up with $4
million to get out of jail.
A judge on Thursday denied Aakash Dalal’s (ah-KAHSH’
dah-LAHLZ’) request for lower bail.
The 21-year-old New Brunswick resident and Anthony Graziano
have pleaded not guilty to aggravated arson, conspiracy and bias intimidation
charges.
Dalal also is accused of conspiring to kill the assistant prosecutor
handling his case.
Prosecutors allege he helped plan the attacks that Graziano
carried out, when several Molotov cocktails were hurled into the residential
quarters of Congregation Beth El on Montross Avenue in Rutherford, where Rabbi
Nosson Schuman lived with his family, authorities said.
All escaped the attack without injuries, except for the
rabbi, whose hand was burned as he tried to put out the fire, they said.
The Record newspaper. Reports Dalal’s lawyer argued
that point on Thursday and said he had obtained more than 750 signatures from
people in support of his client.
But the judge said there was no reason to lower the bail.
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