United States v. Samaras

SENTENCING MEMORANDUM

ADELMAN, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Defendant Eli Samaras allowed the participants in a large-scale coupon fraud scheme to use his Yonkers, N.Y. check cashing business to negotiate checks received from the victims of the offense. 1 Before authorities discovered the scheme, the participants had run more than $1.6 million in checks through defendant’s business. The government indicted defendant, and he pleaded guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349, conspiracy to obtain money by means of mail and wire fraud. 2 The probation office prepared a pre-sentence report (“PSR”),…