Lithuanian pleads guilty in US to massive fraud against Google, Facebook

By Brendan Pierson on Mar 21, 2019 6:31AM

Lithuanian pleads guilty in US to massive fraud against Google, Facebook

Helped defraud more than US$100 million.

A Lithuanian man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to US charges that he helped orchestrate a scheme to defraud Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google out of more than US$100 million, federal prosecutors announced. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50, entered his plea to one count of wire fraud before US District ...

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