New York Daily News

$100M con susp extradited

- Victoria Bekiempis Muslim cops honor Ore. heroes’ kin Elizabeth Keogh

A LITHUANIAN man accused of conning Facebook and Google out of $100 million has been extradited to the U.S., authoritie­s said Thursday.

Evaldas Rimasauska­s, 48, was arrested in his home country in March 2017 for the alleged email-based scam targeting the tech titans.

Rimasauska­s was brought New York Wednesday night, authoritie­s said. He faces wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated THE NYPD’S Muslim Officers Society on Thursday honored the families of three Oregon men who selflessly defended a pair of teens — one of whom was berated for wearing a hijab.

Two of the men were killed by the racist attacker in the May incident.

The society welcomed relatives of Ricky Best, 53, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, identity theft charges.

According to the federal indictment, Rimasauska­s ran his phishing scheme from 2013 to 2015.

He allegedly registered a company in Latvia and sent emails claiming to be from a computer manufactur­er, demanding payment.

Rimasauska­s grabbed the cash and wired it to bank accounts across the world, prosecutor­s allege. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. 23, and the parents of survivor, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, to their ninth annual scholarshi­p dinner at Terrace on the Park in Corona, Queens.

“He’s a true hero,” Best’s 19-year-old son, Erik, said of his father.

The group also gave away $5,000 worth of scholarshi­ps to five children of NYPD members.

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