A California man accused and acquitted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the father of a NASCAR driver from McKinney took a deferred adjudication deal on his remaining perjury charges. Mark Ibrahim entered into a probation agreement with prosecutors on one lesser perjury charge in exchange for dismissing the remaining six aggravated perjury charges, according to Collin County court records. Ibrahim’s agreement places him on 18 months of probation and orders him to pay a $2,500 fine in connection with his charge. Deferred adjudication is a special form of probation that allows a defendant to serve time for their charge without admitting guilt. The Collin County District Attorneys Special Crimes Unit accused Ibrahim of stealing approximately $750,000 from Robert Richardson Sr. of McKinney. Witnesses said Ibrahim claimed he would put Richardson Sr.s money in a Bank of America account and use it to match corporate sponsorships to fund races for his son, NASCAR Busch Series driver Robert Richardson Jr. A grand jury indicted Ibrahim on a first-degree felony count of theft over $200,000 and a second-degree felony count of securing execution of a document by deception and filed the case in 380th District Court. A jury later acquitted him of all charges in January of 2008.(Courier-Gazette), for ealier information on the scam, see the Jan. 2008 archives.(2-10-2009)
