New York Attorney Charged In Scheme To Defraud In Connection With Northern District Litigation (United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California)

(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California) SAN FRANCISCO - Joel Zweig, an attorney who resides in New York, was charged with wire fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, aggravated identity theft, and false statements to a government agency announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The charges stem from allegations that Zweig attempted to manufacture evidence to prove losses suffered by a litigant in a federal case pending in the Northern District of California. According to the indictment, Zweig, 52, was...