| Oklahoma Man
Charged With Elder Scams Is
Released on Bond To Be Secured
by Girlfriend
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 2 – A man charged with
scamming elderly people into
mailing him money and then
laundering it was presented on
April 2 before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Barbara C.
Moses. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag court.
Ratansha
Vakil was arrested in Oklahoma
on an SDNY complaint with two
co-defendants. As a condition
of his release on bond, he
cannot speak with his
co-defendants outside the
presence of
counsel.
He can,
however, speaking with his
girlfriend Individual-1, who
is expected to put up her
$75,000 Oklahoma home - the
address was stated in court
but Inner City Press is
voluntarily not publishing it
- as security for the bond. No
one else, retained counsel
said, would co-sign the bond.
The
overall case is USA v. Patel,
et al., 1:25-mj-802 (Moses)
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