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Bergen-Based 15-Year Fugitive Takes Plea EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Middle Eastern organized crime figure captured by the FBI after a 15-year international manhunt admitted Tuesday that he conned New Jersey mom-and-pop stores out of computer equipment as part of an East Rutherford-based criminal enterprise. Some of the small business owners were wiped out by the group of thieves that included Steven “Fouad" Nacim, 49, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Newark who fled to his native Morocco in 2002 to avoid prosecution. Nacim, who'd been under house arrest with GPS location monitoring, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District…

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by Jerry DeMarco