Man accused of trying to extort gambler

A 27-year-old man is accused of trying to extort $100,000 from a professional, high-stakes gambler by threatening to release secretly filmed footage of the two having sex in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas resident Fredi Kazimirsky was indicted last week by a federalgrandjuryinnevada.the victim,wholivesinanotherstate,is not named in court documents.

According to a criminal complaint, filed July 1, Kazimirsky first met the man in a Strip hotel room on the

Strip in April or May. The two “consumedalcoholanddrugsandhadan intimate encounter,” the complaint reads, describing Kazimirsky as a prostitute.

Aftertheencounter,thetwokeptin touch via text. In June, they agreed to meet in Las Vegas, but the plans fell through.

“So let me get this straight,” Kazimirsky texted the man, according to the complaint. “You are not going to meet me?”

In follow-up texts, Kazimirsky revealed to the man that he had secretly used a second phone to film the two having sex during their first encounter. He then threatened to sell the footage to TMZ or porn websites unless the man paid him $100,000 in cash, the complaint alleges.

“I don’t play no games,” another text read.

After contacting the FBI, the man agreed to meet Kazimirsky on June 28 at a hotel east of the Strip, but said he only had $54,000 on hand. Kazmirsky came anyway, and when he arrived at the hotel room, he was taken into custody.

Kazimirsky faces one count of use of a facility of interstate commerce to promote extortion. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

A jury trial is slated to start Oct. 7.

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