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Man Accused in Synagogue Firebombing Pleads Not Guilty in Prosecutor Murder Plot

Aakash Dalal, the former Lodi man allegedly behind the anti-semitic arsons earlier this year, has pleaded not guilty to additional charges that he plotted to murder the assistant prosecutor in the case.

 

The former Lodi man who allegedly played a guiding role in the firebombings of Jewish synagogues earlier this year has pleaded not guilty to new charges that he conspired to kill the assistant prosecutor handling his case, authorities said Thursday. 

Aakash Dalal, 20, who had been attending Rutgers University and has a New Brunswick address, plotted to obtain a gun and murder Assistant Prosecutor Martin Delaney after he made bail, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement.

Dalal, who was scheduled to be released from jail this week after arranging to post $1 million bail, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to possess a weapon for unlawful purposes and terroristic threats.

In early May, FBI agents launched an investigation into the possibility Dalal planned to commit arson attacks at federal facilities after being released, authorities said. No definitive signs of more arson attacks were found, but investigators turned up evidence pointing to a plot against the assistant prosecutor, Molinelli said. 

"The threat was deemed real and security measures were put into place for the intended victim," Molinelli said. 

On Wednesday, FBI agents and prosecutor's office detectives searched Dalal's jail cell. 

"Evidence was obtained during said search regarding the plot to kill Assistant Prosecutor Delaney," the prosecutor's statement said. "In addition, evidence of Dalal's anti-government ideals and beliefs that violence against the government is necessary was found, as well as a list of 'enemies' Dalal kept which include Prosecutor Molinelli." 

Dalal's bail had been reduced from $1 million from $2.5 million. A judge set additional bail of $3 million on the latest charges, for a total bail of $4 million.

His lawyer told NorthJersey.com that he would seek another bail reduction at a later hearing.

Dalal had previously been charged with aggravated arson, conspiracy to commit aggravated arson and bias intimidation in connection with the firebombings for allegedly showing Anthony Graziano, the teen who allegedly carried out the attacks, how to make the Molotov cocktails used in firebombings of Congregation K'hal Adath Jeshurun in Paramus and Congregation Beth El in Rutherford.

While Dalal wasn't present for the two firebombing incidents and a third attempt at the Jewish Community Center in Paramus, Molinelli said Dalal played a direct role in showing Graziano, a friend since middle school, how to carry out the attacks and in encouraging him to do so.

"Mr. Dalal was actually the instigator of these incidents," Molinelli said in March.

During an investigation of Dalal's apartment at the time of his arrest in March, investigators found a blueprint of a school in Camden County marked for another attack and labeled “Project Anarchy."

The attacks put the area's Jewish community on edge and prompted police to step up patrols around the county

Related Topics: Aakash Dalal, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Bias crimes, Hackensack, John Molinelli, Rutherford, Synagogue firebombing, anti-semitic hate crimes, conspiracy to kill prosecutor, and paramus

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8:52 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

What a complete misfit!
A true posterchild for the Death Penalty

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Billy Mays

5:40 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

OMG! What a fool. He is a poster child for rehab or a severe beating on the buttocks, but not a death penalty.

Sue Bryan

9:13 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Why let him have bail at all at this point??!!

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Billy Mays

5:37 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

He's innocent until proven not guilty.

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Billy Mays

2:41 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Can't you come up with something better than just: "I agree"? Try being original, will ya.

PAT KINNEY

9:32 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

I blogged the firebombing story and interfaith services back in Dec./Jan.
Incredible! Frightening!

-Pat Kinney

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Billy Mays

5:37 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

You are incredible, and frightening too. What a mind you have. What a mind. If I ever needed a transplant I asked for yours because I'd want one that has never been used.

PAT KINNEY

9:34 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Law enforcement and terrorism and racial/religious taskforces to be commended!

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Glenn Murphy

10:37 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Why.... "He's a Perfect Poster Boy" for the Tea Party Extremists who hate our President!

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Tommy P

1:03 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

The Tea Party are not a bunch of extremists like the criminal Occupation movement. They don't hate the President. They hate the liberty he denies we the people. I understand you disagree with them, I often do as well. But to call average Americans extremists because they are for fiscal responsibility is a bit a extreme, don't you think.

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Jack B Goode

6:24 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012

No , he's more like a phony Liberal Wall Street Occupier anarchist, who hates capitalism,

Michael Agosta

7:42 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

What is a Tea Party extremist?
I despise Barack Hussein Obama. I am a member of the Tea Party. Does that mean I am an extremist?

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William Mays

12:03 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

I love how you included Hussein because you still can't believe that Obama is a Christian. You know deep down know that if Obama was white there wouldn't be a Tea Party. Because the truth is that the the Tea Party is a bunch of old, confused racists. The ones that make me laugh the most are the seniors that are in the Tea Party and receive Social Security and Medicare. I'll be laughing away if a Republican president gets elected and they get their Social Security and Medicare taken away and their old asses are thrown out of their public funded housing onto the street.

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Billy Mays

12:43 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

I here what you are saying, and I support you. Good luck.

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William Mays

12:45 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

"Billy Mays
1 minute ago
I here what you are saying, and I support you. Good luck."

I apologize, that comment was not from me, but rather the moron that has been impersonating me.

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Michael Agosta

4:20 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Hussein is his middle name. I didn't give him that name. Talk to his family about that.
I am a racist because I don't like him? That is one sorry and stupid argument. Guess what, I don't like his white half either.
If one does not agree with the current administration they are extremists?
Ignorance is bliss in your world.

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William Mays

8:28 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

So when you talk about other people you write out their middle name too? You put that middle name in because it sounds Muslim. There is nothing extreme about this administration. The Tea Party on the other hand is like a herd of sheep which is led by their sheep dogs, Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck.

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Michael Agosta

9:33 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

You're not too bright. His middle name sounds muslim? It is an Islamic name.
I don't listen to Beck or Limbaugh. I have two eyes and can see clearly.

All you do is accuse everyone else without any facts.
According to your logic, I must be a Nazi anti-Semite becasue I just took a week vacation in Germany.

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William Mays

10:26 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Yeah, and pretty much you are emphasizing the name because you can't believe the fact that Obama is a Christian and as American you are. When I talk about someone else, I don't point out their full name, and most other people are like that as well. Don't try to cover up the fact that you included his middle name there because you think that he's Muslim.

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Billy Mays

2:43 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

That depends. Do you like hot tea or iced tea? Also do you wear depends?

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Billy Mays

5:35 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Agosta, I think you are a Tea POTTY extremist.

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William Mays

12:30 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012

Billy Mays
2:43 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
That depends. Do you like hot tea or iced tea? Also do you wear depends?


Billy Mays
5:35 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Agosta, I think you are a Tea POTTY extremist.

^Those two comments were not me, but rather the moronic impersonator thats been bothering me and other users.

Diane Schwarz

10:34 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

Isn't this an article about Aakash Dalal? If the photo is accurate, he looks pretty wild eyed.
No matter WHAT he's planned or done, killing him is not the answer. He should be sentenced to life withour parole!

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Billy Mays

5:34 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

He has to be convicted first. I think that is how it works in this country. I hope you never get a chance to sit on a jury. OMG! What a dummy.

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11:10 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

Diane there is ZERO logic in that approach!
This piece of manure is not fit to walk amomgst us and frankly i don't want to pay anything more than the cost of a lethal injection to rid society of his being.
If tou geel differently, rally some of your friends and donate the projected cost of housing, feeding and caring for this cretin until his dying days

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RdgwdGRock

3:02 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012

put him in the same cell as Sandusky

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J.D. Luke

6:43 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

I don't have a particular problem with the concept of the death penalty, although I do have some very serious concerns with how it's handled by we humans. Innocent people are sometimes executed, and guilty people get years and years of mandated (and expensive) appeals. If it was a simple matter of the cost of one injection into people who were certainly guilty, that would be great. However, we do live under the rule of law, and all must be treated equally.

On the balance, I'm not certain that providing a jail cell and lousy food for a few decades is actually less expensive than pushing a capital case, although I don't really know the numbers. In any case this guy is going to cost all of us far more than his worth.

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Billy Mays

5:32 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Manure floats. Lethal injection is costly and is cruel and unusual punishment.

Wally Van Riper

12:34 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

It sounds like this boy didn't have discipline as a child. Kids need discipline. When my kid was 4 years old we had a problem with him talking to strangers. Here's how we solved the problem: I had a friend from work drive by the house when my kid was playing in the yard. He lured him to the car with the old "Wanna see a puppy?" story. Then he threw him in the back seat and drove off with him. For two hours he shouted threats at him, like "You'll never see your Mommy and Daddy again!". Then he dropped him off at a distant 7-11. I just "happened" to be driving by and picked him up. Since then my kid speaks to no one. He leaves the house (reluctantly) only for school. He doesn't make eye contact with anyone. He has a slight twitch on the right side of his face but that's a small price to pay for peace of mind.

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Billy Mays

2:40 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

That was the dumbest thing one could ever do to a child. You ought to be arrested and incarcerated for cruelty to a minor. You jerk, you ruined that child forever. He will never, ever trust an adult for the rest of his life.

That treatment was done to me when I was a child and I have the same symptoms that you described, and I'm an adult. In addition, I wet my bed, like to pull the wings off of flies, and love to set things on fire, like your butt if I ever knew who you were.

Thanks to people like you who treat children like the way you described we have in our society serial killers, serial rapists, and people like me. Thanks pal.

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Wally Van Riper

3:14 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

"I wet my bed, like to pull the wings off of flies, and love to set things on fire"......wow, maybe you should just turn yourself in to the proper authorities. You seem to have anger issues. And don't worry about my kid. He's doing just fine. He's 27 now and just finishing the 7th grade.

Billy Mays

9:20 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Nit picker, yes. Nitwit, no; although I am a witty person.

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Lisa Salvato

11:14 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

You are not the smartest person here. Just remember that.

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William Mays

12:34 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012

Pretty funny how someone takes the time out of their lives to impersonate others. Really, it's not working, you don't really annoy me.

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William Mays

8:28 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012

You really are determined to stop me aren't you? You realize that you are committing a crime by pretending to be Paul, Lisa, and Tracy, thats pretty much identity theft. If they wanted to, they could get a court order and Patch would gladly reveal where your mother's basement is.

Billy Mays

11:17 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012

Oh shoot! I just thought of something about myself. I'm committing a crime pretending to be Billy Mays. That's pretty much identity theft too.

Oh wait, I'm above and beyond the laws and rules.

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William Mays

1:01 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Not really, Billy Mays has been dead for a while, and I don't actually intend to make people believe that I am Billy Mays.

Billy Mays

11:21 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012

Hey Paul, I thought you and I were friends. I didn't realize I annoyed you. But you know what? Tough nuggies. Most of your post annoy me. So there, I said it.

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William Mays

1:01 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Billy Mays
1 hour ago
Hey Paul, I thought you and I were friends. I didn't realize I annoyed you. But you know what? Tough nuggies. Most of your post annoy me. So there, I said it.

^Sorry Paul, thats the moron impersonator.

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Paul Umrichin

11:15 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Hey Billy Mays,

You can stuff it too. You say that you don't actually intend to make people believe that you are Billy Mays, so why do you insist and continue to use his name. And how are you different than others guilty of identity theft?

You just don't make sense, but then again you never do.

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