Former Dublin resident pleads guilty to $10 million scam
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Haider Zafar
With both his estranged wife and his girlfriend sitting behind him, a former Dublin resident who lived the high life on $10 million he scammed from a Washington, D.C., businessman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court.
Haider Zafar, 36, formerly of Avery Road in Dublin, stood mute as IRS special agent Charles Birch listed Zafar’s misdeeds and the cars he purchased with the ill-gotten gains: a $136,978 Maserati, a $138,000 Lamborghini and a $145,308 Aston Martin.
Guilty plea expected in Miami Heat fraud case
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wtopstaff October 1, 2014 5:06 pm
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ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man charged with a multimillion-dollar investment scam involving three former Miami Heat players and the team itself is expected to plead guilty, according to his attorney and court documents filed Wednesday.
A grand jury indictment alleged that Haider Zafar defrauded players Mike Miller, James Jones and Rashard Lewis in 2013 by promising to invest $7.5 million in various business opportunities. Instead, prosecutors say, Zafar kept the money and used some of it to buy a $1 million, three-season Heat ticket package.
Zafar faces five wire fraud charges that each carry maximum 20-year prison sentences.
That case is being consolidated with another against Zafar in Columbus, where a federal judge set a plea hearing for the Miami Heat case for Thursday.
A 135-count indictment filed last year in Ohio described a scheme under which Zafar allegedly swindled a Washington, D.C., businessman out of $10 million between 2008 and 2010.
Zafar was accused of claiming that his uncle headed the defense department in Pakistan and thus had inside information about land sales to the government, an IRS agent testified in court.
Zafar persuaded his fraud victim to provide $10 million to buy parcels of land which he said could be resold to the government at an inflated price, according to the agent’s testimony at a February hearing where Zafar pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion charges.
Zafar, currently in Franklin County Jail, is pleading guilty to the Miami Heat allegations to accept responsibility and become a productive citizen again, his attorney, Sam Shamanksy, said Wednesday.
“He’s not interested in litigation in Miami, he’s interested in making all the parties whole and accepting whatever punishment is appropriate,” Shamansky said.
Call him Uncle Warren and sitting on your boss' leg who called you out, wrote a letter shyt about you...who knows what....he's probably called him the N word behind his back.
Kobe plays for New Mexico?
