MALCOLM X'S DAUGHTER PLEADS GUILTY TO NYC THEFT

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MALCOLM X's daughter has pleaded guilty to swindling more then $55,000 from a longtime family friend by running up huge credit card bills. 
Malikah Shabazz, 46, the youngest daughter of the slain civil rights leader used the personal financial information of Khaula Bakr to open credit card accounts in her name. 
The 70-year-old New York City woman whos late husband was one of Malcolm X's bodyguards on the night he was assassinated in 1965, discovered the scam when she got a letter from Wells Fargo Bank demanding payment of $28,789 on an overdue account.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Shabazz "preyed upon the trusting nature of a once close family friend."
It's not the first time Shabazz has been in trouble with the law due to financial difficulty. 
Several years ago, a valuable trove of her father's writings was auctioned off after she failed to pay rent on a storage locker in Florida. 
The collection was later returned to the family and is now on long-term loan to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
She has now walked free after entering the plea deal which calls for her to pay back the money and be on probation for five years.
"She's excited to be reunited with her daughter," said her lawyer, Russell Rothberg. 
He said his client had no other comment.