| Brazilian
Gets 4 Years In Advance Fee Scheme, US
Request For 8 Years Denied on MCC
Conditions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 27 – The U.S. Department
of Justice on September 27
announced that JOAO DJALMA
PRESTES JUNIOR, a/k/a “Joao
Pereira,” a Brazilian
national, was sentenced today
to 48 months in prison after
pleading guilty to defrauding
Brazilian businesses of
approximately $15 million
through an international
advance fee scheme.
PRESTES JUNIOR was arrested in
June 2020 and pled guilty in
April 2021 before U.S.
District Judge Jed S. Rakoff,
who imposed today’s
sentence.
Inner City
Press in fact covered the
sentencing. The prosecutors
asked for 84 months; Joao's US
taxpayer funded Federal
Defender cited the conditions
in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center to
advocate for less - getting 48
months.
The prosecutors
continued: "Superseding
Indictments were unsealed
today charging co-conspirators
HERMINIO RIBEIRO DIAS CRUZ,
JUAN CARLOS VILLALBA, ROSE
MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA, and ALEX
PEREIRA DE SOUTO with wire
fraud and conspiracy to commit
wire fraud in connection with
the same international advance
fee scheme. CRUZ,
VILLALBA, DE OLIVEIRA, and DE
SOUTO remain at large."
The case is US v.
Prestes Junior, 20-cr-416
(Rakoff)
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