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16 Years Later: FBI Nabs Bergen-Based Fugitive In $2.8 Million Scam 16 Years Later: FBI Nabs Bergen-Based Fugitive In $2.8 Million Scam
16 Years Later: FBI Nabs Bergen-Based Fugitive In $2.8 Million Scam EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- After a 16-year international manhunt, the FBI nabbed a Middle Eastern organized crime figure who conned New Jersey mom-and-pop stores out of computer equipment as part of an East Rutherford-based criminal enterprise that gathered $2.8 million in illegal profits, authorities said Friday. Some of the small business owners were wiped out by the group of thieves that included Steven Nacim, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Newark who fled to his native Morocco in 2002 to avoid prosecution for his crimes, federal authorities said. A federal judge in Newark on Fri…

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