Federal and International

FBI: California Man Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in $122 Million Extortion Plot

Beckley, WV-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin September 11 announced that Vivek Shah, 26, of West Hollywood, California, was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar extortion scheme. Last year, Shah threatened to kill family members of seven prominent victims, including movie producer Harvey Weinstein, Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, and coal executive Chris Cline, unless his targets wired tens of millions of dollars into offshore bank accounts.

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