$100M con susp extradited
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.