| Man Charged With Trucking
Company Ponzi Scheme was Released
Now Gets Week & Switch
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 13 – The prosecutors of
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York late on October 25
announced "the arrest of ARSEN
LUSHER, who orchestrated a
scheme to defraud more than 20
investors of more than $5
million." By
then Inner City Press was in
the SDNY Magistrates Court,
where Lusher was being
presented, his wife and
daughter in the gallery, no
other media. Thread:
AUSA: We want
electronic monitoring,
and defendant's Ukraine
passport if he has one. He
could flee to Ukraine, the
country of his birth.
Individual-1 fled there.
Judge: Mr. Lusher dud not
flee.
AUSA: He brought
in $40 million. [Woman in
gallery shakes head]
AUSA: He gambles on FanDuel
and in Atlantic City. We found
luxury watches this morning.
He has used other people's
identities.
Judge: Many
fraudsters do.
While the US Attorney's Office
sought location monitoring,
emphasizing that Lusher was
born in Ukraine, Magistrate
Judge Gary Stein turned them
down, finding it unlikely he
would seek to return there.
But
Lusher's request for travel to
South Florida to renovate his
in-laws' condo as a rental
property was denied.
On November 6 his
counsel wrote in to Magistrate
Judge Willis asking for
permission to travel to
Florida November 11-14 to
"open a compounding pharmacy."
It was approved.
On November 13
Lusher's counsel asked for and
got a 1 week extension to meet
conditions, and the switch of
security from Lusher's house
to that of his father in Sunny
Isles.
The case is
USA v. Lusher, 1:24-mj-3662
(Stein)
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