A lawyer and former intelligence official under the Obama administration guaranteed the $250,000 bail of a New York City attorney arrested for allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle early Saturday morning during a protest decrying the police killing of George Floyd.
Attorney Salmah Rizvi agreed to guarantee the large sum explaining to a court that she and Urooj Rahman, the lawyer accused of the fire bombing, were best friends.
Rizvi said that she was an associate at Ropes & Gray in Washington, DC, earning enough to cover the amount so Rahman can stay out of jail.
‘Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C.,’ Rizvi told the court. ‘I earn $255,000 a year.’
Attorney Salmah Rizvi (pictured) guaranteed $250,000 bail for Urooj Rahman, a lawyer arrested for allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle early Saturday morning during a protest decrying the police killing of George Floyd
Attorney Salmah Rizvi agreed to guarantee the large sum explaining to a court that she and Urooj Rahman, the lawyer accused of the fire bombing, were best friends. Rahman is pictured in surveillance footage taken of her allegedly holding a Molotov cocktail
The guarantee makes Rizvi liable for the hefty sum if Rahman fails to comply with the requirements of the court, The Washington Beacon reports.
Rizvi had worked as a lead linguist and analyst for the Defense and State Departments when President Barack Obama was still in office, according to her page at the Islamic Scholarship Fund, or ISF. The organization works to raise the profile of American Muslims in media and politics.
Rizvi, who was raised as a Shia Muslim, speaks Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, and has expertise in international security and diplomacy, according to the ISF. ‘Her high-value work would often inform the President’s Daily Briefs,’ the organization says of the lawyer’s time with the Obama administration.
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