Prison Chaplain Sues New York Post for $20 Million

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Melody Rashada, a teacher at an upstate New York mosque and a chaplain in the New York State prison system, filed a $20 million lawsuit against the New York Post in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday, claiming she was libeled in a September 2010 op-ed piece.

The article, written by Patrick Dunleavy, a former deputy inspector general within the prison system, suggested that Rashada helped radicalize four former inmates who were charged and eventually convicted of plotting to blow up a Bronx synagogue.

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