4 from Glen Cove charged in mass-internet marketing investment decision plan, federal prosecutors say

Four Glen Cove citizens ended up charged Wednesday with operating a innovative international mass-advertising and marketing investment fraud plan that stole much more than $8.4 million from buyers about the earth, federal prosecutors stated.

Michael D’Urso, 54, Alyssa D’Urso, 28 and Antonella Chiaramonte, 36, were being arrested in Glen Cove Wednesday morning while Jay Garnock, 75, was arrested in West Palm Beach front, Florida. They ended up arraigned in federal court docket in New York and Florida Wednesday afternoon.

A fifth suspect, Robert Booth, 68, of Brooklyn, was arrested in August and was formerly arraigned for his position in the fraud, officers claimed.

“Hiding driving fake financial investment companies and a network of shell providers, these defendants preyed on victims about the planet and cheated them of their tough-gained discounts,” Damian Williams, U.S. legal professional for the Southern District of New York, said in a information launch.

“In promoting their victims pretend investments in American businesses, the defendants abused the self-confidence and trust that investors around the world have in American securities and American banking institutions.”

All five suspects are charged with one particular depend just about every of conspiracy to dedicate securities fraud and run unlicensed income transmitting companies conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering. Booth is also billed with three counts, and Alyssa D’Urso, Garnock and Chiaramonte with a single rely each individual, of running an unlicensed dollars transmitting organization.

Garnock was launched on $200,000 bond when Alyssa D’Urso and Chiaramonte have been launched on $100,000 bond. Michael D’Urso’s bail status was not promptly identified.

Attorneys for the 4 suspects arrested Wednesday either declined to remark Wednesday or did not reply to requests for comment.

Starting in at minimum June 2019, Booth ran a boiler home operation in Thailand — he told clients it was a Manhattan-based mostly investment firm — that purported to promote traders securities in privately held and publicly traded American providers, prosecutors reported in the release.

Booth and his co-conspirators, authorities stated, propped up the fraud with bogus identities and fake or deceptive Website web pages, e mail addresses and phone numbers, prosecutors stated.

Boiler rooms ordinarily use significant-strain sales techniques to offer stocks to clients who are identified as randomly.

The 4 Glen Cove defendants are charged with managing a network of shell organizations and related financial institution accounts in New York, partnering with many boiler rooms — including Booth’s — to receive far more than $8.4 million of stolen investment decision resources, authorities claimed. They then made use of the shell providers to launder additional than $4.6 million of the stolen cash and ship it back again abroad, prosecutors alleged.

“This crew of fraudsters allegedly went to great lengths to develop fake advertising resources, bogus get hold of information, and pretend organizations to dupe victim/buyers and then laundered the money for personalized get,” reported Thomas Fattorusso, specific agent in cost of the New York Area Office of the Inner Earnings Services.

Robert Brodsky is a breaking information reporter who has labored at Newsday considering that 2011. He is a Queens School and American College alum.