FM reports: Two Los Angeles haredim, Aviv Mizrahi (AKA Aviv Shoham Schwartz) and Rabbi Aryeh Greenes, have reportedly fled to Israel to escape an indictment for bank fraud.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The FBI says two US citizens have fled to Israel as the feds were investigating their part in a $33 million bank fraud.
Aviv Mizrahi, AKA Aviv Shoham Schwartz, 53; and Aryeh Greenes, 58, both residents of the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, were charged Thursday in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in United States District Court in Los Angeles.
The 34-count indictment charges the men with bank fraud and making false statements in loan applications.
Mizrahi faces a maximum statutory sentence of 1,020 years in federal prison if convicted. Greenes faces a maximum statutory sentence of 330 years in federal prison if convicted.
