New York Paralegal Blog

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that six defendants extradited from Israel—GUY MAYO, ELAD MAYO, ASI ALMAKIAS, LIOR ORGAD, DAVID YAMIN, and MOR GALANTI—were sentenced yesterday for their participation in a lottery telemarketing fraud scheme through which they stole approximately $2 million from elderly victims in the United States between 2007 and September 2008. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced the defendants to the following prison terms: 108 months for GUY MAYO; 78 months for ELAD MAYO; 72 months for ASI ALMAKIAS; 60 months for LIOR ORGAD; 37 months for MOR GALANTI; and 33 months for DAVID YAMIN. According to indictments and an information previously filed in Manhattan federal court: The defendants participated in a phoney “lottery prize” scheme that targeted hundreds of victims, mostly elderly, throughout the United States. The defendants identified victims by purchasing the names and contact information o...

NEW YORK - An Israeli national wanted for fraud in his native country was deported this week by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Moshe Sussman, 31, was flown to Tel Aviv, Israel, on a commercial flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Upon his arrival in Tel Aviv, ICE ERO officers transferred him to the custody of Israeli law enforcement authorities. Sussman is wanted in Israel on financial fraud charges totaling $1.9 million. He was taken into custody at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., by ICE ERO fugitive operations and the U.S. Marshals Service on March 17. "This removal will allow Israeli authorities to proceed with prosecution of a crime alleged to have occurred in their country. We are resolute in our commitment to identify, arrest and remove those individuals who falsely believe they can escape legal issues in their home country by hiding in ours," said Chris Shanahan,...