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Pennsylvania Accountant Sentenced for Conspiring with Members of Organized Crime Family in Fraud Scheme

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 19, 2014.  A Pennsylvania accountant was sentenced today to serve 40 months in prison for conspiring to defraud FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. (FirstPlus), a Texas-based financial services company, which had been targeted for extortionate takeover and looting by a group led by Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo S. Scarfo.

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Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New…

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