A top Muslim civil rights advocacy organization called the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been served with a summons for covering up fraud and racketeering by one of its attorneys, WorldNetDaily.com has reported. The lawsuit alleges that CAIR misled its clients about its firing of the attorney, named Morris Days, and further tried to reach settlements with some of them that required they remain silent about the incident or be sued for $25,000.

“CAIR has engaged in a massive cover-up of a criminal fraud in which literally hundreds of CAIR clients have been victimized and because of the CAIR cover-up they still don’t realize it,” said David Yerushalmi, who is representing the four plantiffs, in a press release on the web site of the Mapping Sharia Project, which he is a member of.

“The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrates that CAIR is only looking out for CAIR and its ongoing effort to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization,” he said.

CAIR is also accused of failing to perform a background check on Days and falsely presenting him as a legitimate attorney.

“This individual was never an attorney, had never gone to law school, did not have a degree, but CAIR was representing him as an attorney,” said Dave Gaubatz, who served the summons, in a videotaped interview with WorldNetDaily.com.

Gaubatz served the CAIR officials, including Nihad Awad, the organization’s Executive-Director, at its annual banquet in Arlington, Va. Gaubatz says that he had received information that CAIR had increased its security in case he showed up, but he snuck past security by disguising himself as a blind man and was accompanied by a female Muslim wearing the hajab. He then went up to the stage where Awad was standing by to serve the summons.

CAIR has also been accused by some of being a radical Islamic outfit.

“The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is a criminal organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth Jihad in the U.S.,” Yerushalmi said in an article posted on the Mapping Sharia Project web site.

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity found guilty of financing Hamas and money laundering.