–?? ?stranded passengers asked not to try to cash cheques…accounts emptyHours after his arrest Wednesday morning, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EZjet Air Services, Sonny Austin Ramdeo, appeared before a New York court, accused of stealing US$20M from a hospital chain over a seven-year period.Some of the monies he is accused of stealing were said to be used to finance the operations of EZjet, a chartered airline that he started up last year December, according to prosecutors. He remains in jail in New York without bail.Facing lengthy jail time: EZjet boss, Sonny RamdeoWifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID); and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), investigated the fraud and charged Ramdeo, 35, with wire fraud.They charged him with a US$20 million federal payroll tax fraud scheme.The Federal agents said that Ramdeo kept the money paid by Promise and Success Healthcare to his private company, PayServ, for his personal use.Ramdeo is expected to be removed to the Southern District of Florida on these charges.The federal agents had signaled their intention to arrest him in early November. He immediately went into hiding, but gave the impression through his local country manager, Rosalinda Rasul, that he was communicating with the Feds.He even returned as Chief Executive Officer having resigned when the first accusation of theft surfaced through a writ filed by Promise Healthcare, accusing him of stealing US$5.4 million.Ramdeo, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced late Wednesday, will soon be taken to Florida, another state in the US, to face trial for the charges which were instituted on December 6, all linked to Promise Healthcare.A former resident of Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, the 35-year-old Ramdeo faces up to 60 years in jail on three counts of wire fraud, with a mandatory fine of US$250,000.He could also be fined twice the amount of money he stole or twice the sum his victim lost.Yesterday, Country Manager of EZjet’s Guyana operations, Rosalinda Rasul, admitted that Ramdeo was on the run from the time the Feds declared an interest in him.The details emerging now speak of a man who closely controlled the troubled low-cost carrier even while hiding from the FBI. He managed to fool staffers into believing that everything was alright. He would only answer emails. Nobody seemed to have known where he was.CorneredInvestigators cornered Ramdeo in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday night even as he was in a Skype conference call with Rasul in Guyana and his henchman,
Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Richard Lee, in New York.It wasn’t me! Country manager, Rosalinda RasulHe was immediately arrested and placed before a judge in a federal court in the Eastern District of New York.Court documents released by the Feds explained that Ramdeo was employed as the Director of Payroll of Promise Healthcare Inc. and Success Healthcare LLC, which in total, operated 17 hospitals across the US. He was responsible for the payments of bi-weekly wages and related payroll taxes for more than 3,500 employees of the companies.According to the indictment, as early as September 3, 2010,
Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, and continuing through on or about October 12, 2012, at Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, in the Southern District of Florida, and elsewhere, Ramdeo devised a scheme to defraud the hospitals by stealing the payroll taxes.He did this by establishing a company called Payserv Tax Inc. which he claimed, using false emails, was a subsidiary of Ceridian Corporation, a well known company that once did payroll services for the hospitals.It was based on this claim that the hospitals trusted him and Payserv with millions of dollars.Using this authority, he routinely transferred money from the hospitals to his Payserv accounts.ConspiracyThe indictment also said that Ramdeo,
Cheap NFL Jerseys, in November 2011, incorporated EZjet and later, without authorization, transferred the money from Payserv to the accounts of EZjet.This was for expenses including airplane and crew rental, fuel, food, ground crew and air terminal costs.Ramdeo was charged with three counts. He was accused on December 8, 2011, of transferring $45,000 from Promise Hospital of East Los Angeles L.P. to the Payserv account at PNC Bank.Another charge was that on July 11, 2012, he transferred US$318,696.19 from Promise Hospital of East Los AngelesThe last charge was that on October 9, 2012, he also authorized a transaction of US$100,828.42 to be
