# NY man accused of fraud

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-man-accused-of-fraud/58743>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 20, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-man-accused-of-fraud/58743 "2001-03-20T17:43:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-man-accused-of-fraud/58743/1 "2001-03-20T17:43:22Z")

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Did anyone see this?

This story is pretty wild…This man is accused of what would have to be one of the biggest cases of fraud/identity theft in history…

[http://www.foxnews.com/national/032001/super\_swindler.sml](http://www.foxnews.com/national/032001/super_swindler.sml)

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> Abdallah allegedly breached the bank, brokerage and credit-card accounts of such movers and shakers as Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, George Lucas, Sumner Redstone, Oprah Winfrey, Ross Perot, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Ronald Perelman, Carl Icahn, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, David Geffen, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner.

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**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-man-accused-of-fraud/58743/2 "2001-03-20T18:43:49Z")

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Smart guy. What a shame that he didn’t use all that talent on something a bit more benevolent. Or at least get out of the county to somewhere that doesn’t extradite when he had the chance.