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Man Pretended to be a Mobster in a $4 Million Extortion

Unread postby SlapHappy » Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:27 pm

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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Columbia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, April 8, 2019

New York Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison on Federal Extortion Charge
Defendant Pretended to be a Mobster in a $4 Million Extortion Scheme


WASHINGTON – Tony John Evans, 30, formerly of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in a wide-ranging scheme that caused a Maryland man to embezzle more than $4 million from his employer in Washington, D.C.

The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

Evans pled guilty in September 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to one count of interference with interstate commerce by extortion and aiding and abetting and causing an act to be done. He was sentenced by the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan. Following his prison term, Evans will be placed on three years of supervised release. In addition, he was ordered to pay $4,217,542 in restitution, as well as $3,119,010 in a forfeiture money judgment.

Evans and several members of his family were indicted in April 2018.

In his plea agreement, Evans admitted that from January 2017 through April 2017, he worked with other individuals to extort and defraud others out of money, precious metals, and luxury merchandise. As part of the scheme, he pretended to be a mobster in order to get a Maryland man to provide him and his fellow conspirators with money, luxury goods, and gold. Evans threatened to harm the man and his family if payments were not made.

As a result of Evans and other conspirators’ actions, the man embezzled more than $4 million from his employer in the District of Columbia over a three-month period for the purpose of providing it to Evans and the other conspirators. Towards the end of the conspiracy, the man delivered more than $1 million in gold—which he had purchased with embezzled funds—to a hotel in New York. Evans admitted that he retrieved the gold bars, delivered them to other individuals, and sold several of the bars to a gold dealer in New York in exchange for cash.

In October 2017, the FBI executed a search warrant on Evans’s safe deposit box at a bank in New York. The safe deposit box contained gold and expensive jewelry, including luxury watches and diamonds. As part of his plea agreement, Evans agreed to forfeit his rights to all of the items recovered from the safe deposit box. He also surrendered two additional one-kilogram gold bars to the FBI, along with a Rolex watch, which he purchased with criminal proceeds.

Charges against five co-defendants remain pending.

In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Liu and Assistant Director in Charge McNamara commended the work of those who investigated the case from the FBI’s Washington Field Office. They expressed appreciation for the assistance provided by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. They also acknowledged the efforts of those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane Lucas, who is assisting with forfeiture issues, Paralegal Specialists Brittany Phillips and Joshua Fein, former Paralegal Specialists Jessica Mundi and Kristy Penny, and Forensic Accountant Bryan Snitselaar.

Finally, they commended the work of Assistant U.S. Attorneys David Kent and Kondi Kleinman, who investigated and are prosecuting the case.

Topic(s):
Financial Fraud
Component(s):
USAO - District of Columbia
Press Release Number:
19-51
Updated April 8, 2019
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