Allied Pockets’s Amy Rountree has been sentenced to time served.
Rountree’s sentence was handed down on December thirteenth. She is moreover topic to at least one 12 months of supervised launch.
Allied Pockets was a scam-friendly fee processor owned by CEO Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja (proper).
Rountree and co-defendant Mohammed “Moe” Diab” helped run Allied Pockets, as COO and VP of Operations respectively.
Following their indictments in 2021, Rountree and Diab pled responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud again in August.
Diab was scheduled for sentencing on December nineteenth, nonetheless on November eighth the courtroom has since pushed again on his plea settlement.
The courtroom concludes that, based mostly upon info presentently disclosed, a time served sentence is inadequate to realize the objectives of sentencing.
An amended plea settlement for Diab was filed on December nineteenth. That very same day the courtroom held a Standing Convention, throughout which the courtroom suggested it had rejected the settlement.
Court docket shouldn’t be happy {that a} time served sentence is adequate. Court docket rejects the revised C-plea settlement and provides its causes.
The Court docket will permit the events till shut of enterprise on Monday, 12/23/24, to determine whether or not to submit an extra revised C-plea, to go ahead with the sentencing and not using a plea, or to set a date for trial.
The courtroom has scheduled a followup listening to for December twenty third.
Andy Khawaja stays a wished fugitive. As of June 2023, Khawaja is reported to be out on bail pending extradition proceedings in Lithuania.
Approached by BNS, Lithuania’s Prosecutor Common’s Workplace has refused to offer any info concerning Khawaja’s extradition to the US, his present standing or the investigations into his actions.
There have been no updates on Khawaja since.
A fourth defendant, Thomas Wells, pled responsible in October 2021. Wells’ sentencing has repeatedly been pushed again for the reason that unique February 2022 date.
Wells was scheduled to be sentenced on June fifth, 2024. Since that date was set final November although, there have been no additional updates.
Individually in 2019, Khawaja and Diab have been indicted on fees pertaining to conspiracy to hide conduit and extreme political marketing campaign contributions.
BehindMLM has not been monitoring that case because it falls exterior the scope of our reporting.