A memorial service for Hanan Islam has been scheduled for Saturday to take place at the gymnasium at Compton College in Southern California. Her son, Ronnie “Rizza” Islam, announced on his Instagram account on Sunday that his mother died after a ten-year battle with colon cancer. She was 62.
More than six years ago, we broke the news that Hanan, Rizza, and two of Hanan’s daughters, Zakiyyah and Nimat, had been charged on felony counts for running a Medi-Cal insurance scam out of World Literacy Crusade, the notorious Scientology front operation located in the Los Angeles working class suburb of Compton. Two other employees were also charged, and two high school principals and a high school football coach faced lesser counts for participating in the scheme.
The three educators lost their jobs, and in October 2019 state investigators laid out their case against the Islams in a preliminary hearing, and Hanan and her children were bound over for trial.
Since then, a series of pretrial conferences had taken place, with a trial date being put off repeatedly. We reported earlier that Hanan’s health was being raised in court as a reason for the case being delayed. She was facing the most serious charges as the scam’s ringleader. And because she had previous felony convictions, she was facing a more serious potential penalty than her children were.
At the time of the preliminary hearing, Hanan and Rizza, who were also involved in the Nation of…
