NY Feds Indict 15 In Alleged Identity Theft, Mortgage Fraud Operation

15 people investigated for producing fake identification documents and using them to steal at least $10 million, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan Monday, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Michael Garcia, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.

Those indicted are: Tahir Ali Khan, Fayaz Ahmed, Arie Benshimon, Naveed Ali Bhindar, Syed Hassan, Muhammad Ishaq, Basharat Jarral, Nadeem Khan, Ghulam Mehmood, Shaheen Mukhtar, Qaiser Qureshi, Franklin Rodriguez, Oscar Sanchez, Syed Shah, and Pradipt Sharma.

For more, see U.S. Attorney Press Release.

For the grand jury indictment, see:

• Indictment - Part 1
• Indictment - Part 2

(If there is any problem accessing the indictment, drop me a line at HomeEquityTheft@yahoo.com - be sure to put U.S. vs. Khan, et al. in the "Subject" line - and I'll e-mail it to you.)

For story update (11-26-08), see Leader of Multi-Million Fraud Ring Pleads Guilty.