Fbi Busts $465,000 Credit Menu Scam !

Federal investigators arrested too indicted a onetime Bridgeport resident who they tell orchestrated a scam inward which unusual nationals applied for too received credit cards on which they charged upward to $465,000 worth of goods earlier leaving the dry soil alongside the banks asset the tab.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 federal grand jury belatedly Midweek indicted Mohammad Takhtarawanji, besides known every bit Abu Terak, 58, formerly of Bridgeport too the human the FBI said headed the performance that recruited Arab nationals.
Takhtarawanji faces a accuse of conspiring to commit wire fraud too the reputed caput is nether arrest too facing vii charges of wire fraud. Each of charges carries a maximum of twenty years inward prison. He has been arrested too is beingness detained without bond.
An affidavit filed yesteryear FBI Special Agent Michael J. Wojciga claims Takhtarawanji was paid $5,000 to come upward to Connecticut from Florida to oversee the ring. Here helped recruit Arab nationals to apply for credit cards, run the cards to their maximum, pay off a share alongside fraudulent checks too and therefore apply for larger credit lines.
The credit cards were used to purchase trade every bit good every bit adventure at the Mohegan Lord's Day Casino. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 $26,000 auto was purchased at a Rye, N.Y. dealership
At simply about point, the cards were maxed out too the individuals left the expanse too inward simply about cases, the country.
One player had 64 unlike cards on which $238,000 was drawn.
Among the victims were American Express, Bank of America, Chase too People's Bank.
Assistant the U.S.A. Attorney Stephen Reynolds is prosecuting the case.

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