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Three More ATM Skimmers Jailed In Case Ranging To Romania Now To SDNY Judge Swain

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 5– Three men in shackles charged with ATM skimming on Thanksgiving Eve came into and soon left the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court.

One had a French translator and a free lawyer; the other two retained and paid their own counsel.

   Their names were Mircea Constantinescu, Alin Hanes-Calugaru and Dragos Diaconu. Each was dressed in beige prison garb, and each was described in the underlying indictment.

On December 5 three more co-defendants were presented in the Mag Court, again with Inner City Press the only media present. They included Cristian Almanu and Madlin Alexandru Anca, represented by Justin Foy. They were added to the January 9 conference before Judge Swain, and detained upon consent. Inner City Press tweeted at Romania's Mission to the UN for comment, but received none. So much for consular notice. We'll have more on this.

On November 27 it was Constantinescu "a/k/a 'Sobo' shipped a credit card point-of-sale terminal used to fashion skimming devices from a shipping facility in or around Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania to Veracruz, Mexico, on or about June 26, 2018."

    Hanes-Calugaru for his part "installed skimming devices on an ATM in or around Canterbury, Connecticut on or about January 7 and 14, 2017."

     Diaconu "used fraudulent debit cards to withdraw cash from victim accountholders' bank accounts using ATMs in or around Chattanooga and Ooltewah, Tennessee or about about June 2 and 3, 2018."   

All three were detained. Two will have a bail hearing on December 6 before SDNY Judge Laura T. Swain who has already denied bond in the case to Nikolaos Limberatos a/k/a Nicu Limberto, on the grounds that the US would not seek his extradition from Greece if he managed to flee there.

  Judge Swain did, however, grant co-defendant Andrew Eliopoulos' request to travel to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving.

  All three defendants are slated to appear before Judge Swain on January 9, 2020. The case is US v. Constantinescu, et al., 19-cr-651 (Swain). 

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