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The following describes a pending government action that has been formally brought by a government agency but has not yet been resolved. We are providing a summary of the government's allegations, which have not yet been proven.

As of May 23, 2019, U.S. Dept. Of Justice: Case No. 1:19-mj-04557-UA-1

On May 23, 2019, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) announced the arrest of Tomer Osovitzki (aka Tom Osovitzki) for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to the allegations in the Complaint:

Osovitzki was the founder and president of a company that was in the business of brokering airline and private charter flights. Osovitzki perpetrated a scheme to defraud aircraft charter companies and other merchants, a credit card company and credit card payment processors of more than $2.1 million by, among other things, inducing or causing aircraft charter companies, other merchants, the Credit Card Company and credit card payment processors to process credit card transactions under the false pretense that they had been approved by the Credit Card Company.

From March 2017 through March 2018, Osovitzki and agents of Osovitzki's Company repeatedly used credit cards issued by the Credit Card Company to Osovitzki, his wife, and his mother, as payment for aircraft charter flights and other goods and services. These transactions were or would have been declined by the Credit Card Company had they been processed normally through a credit card point-of-sale device, because the cards had been cancelled by the Credit Card Company, or because the accounts did not have sufficient available credit. Osovitzki and agents of Osovitzki's Company provided fraudulent authorization codes to the merchants in order to dupe them into processing "force-post" transactions. Osovitzki told the merchants that he had obtained these authorization codes from the Credit Card Company. This was not true. However, based on these false representations, merchants conducted "force-post" transactions. Because the authorization codes had not in fact been provided by the Credit Card Company, the transactions were later declined.

Osovitzki's Company also used credit card account numbers belonging to its customers to pay for more than $1.3 million of charter flights those customers had not requested, authorized, or utilized, including at least one flight for which Osovitzki was a listed passenger.

OSOVITZKI, of Aventura, Florida, has been charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory minimum consecutive sentence of two years in prison. The maximum potential sentence in this case is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of OSOVITZKI will be determined by a judge.

The charges in the Complaint are merely accusations, and OSOVITZKI is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

If you believe you were a victim of this crime, including a victim entitled to restitution, and you wish to provide information to law enforcement and/or receive notice of future developments in the case or additional information, please contact the Victim/Witness Unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York at (866) 874-8900. For additional information, go to: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/victimwitness.html

For further assistance please contact
U.S. Attorney's Office
One St. Andrews Plaza
New York, NY 10007

LINK: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/private-charter-aviation-broker-arrested-wire-fraud-and-aggravated-identity-theft