Manafort's ex-son-in-law Jeff Yohai gets 9+ years for 'horrific' series of frauds

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LATE NIGHT NEWS FROM THE COAST: Manafort's ex-son-in-law Jeff Yohai gets 9+ years for 'horrific' series of frauds, including scam 'sober living' homes. Sentence is about year-and-a-half longer than Manafort is serving

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/08/yohai-manafort-sentenced-068279

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Birottte said Yohai’s fraud spree demonstrated both “sophistication” and an “evil mind,” as well as Yohai’s belief that he “could do anything he wanted,” the prosecution spokesman said.
Yohai pleaded guilty to a brazen array of frauds, including renting out luxury homes without the permission of their owners, selling non-existent backstage passes for the Coachella music festival, and pawning band equipment that belonged to someone else.

Among those swindled by Yohai was the award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman and Guy Aroch, a prominent photographer, who both invested millions in real estate deals with Yohai.

Some of Yohai’s frauds were carried out while he was on bond after pleading guilty in a real estate fraud case nearly two years ago.

“Defendant has done tremendous damage to a huge number of victims,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Brown wrote in a September court filing. Yohai “has shown an almost unbelievable compulsion to defraud others, to the point that he could not stop even while awaiting this court’s judgment on him in the first case, which strongly suggests that he will continue on his criminal path despite having been blessed with so many advantages.”

Scum is too nice of a description for this guy

[dalton99a]

2. Low-life scum

Jeff Yohai and Jessica Manafort

[BKDem]

3. "All the best people"

Think about all the miserable human beings Trump has introduced into our lives. Gypsies. Tramps. Thieves. Gangsters. Liars. Scum. Hacks. Clowns. Cheats. Nazis. Racists. Assholes. All of Hedley Lamarr's bad guys from Blazing Saddles and more. I'm so sick of this and of what our country has become.

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4. Manafort hardly knew him.