New allocutions push back sentencing in elderly phone scam case
The sentencing of a Canadian man who defrauded hundreds of thousands of dollars from older victims in a phone scam was pushed back at Brooklyn’s federal court Thursday after federal prosecutors surfaced more allocutions.
Online conversations showed Hani Kabbara bragging about owning a Dominican Republic-based call center that was used in the scheme, clashing with his plea that he only operated as a middle-man.
Kabbara pleaded guilty on April 6 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for participating in a two-year scheme that preyed on older victims.
In some cases, victims were told their grandchildren were in prison and they needed to send money for their freedom.