A California person was sentenced to a lot more than two centuries in jail on Thursday for his plot to generate his companion and two autistic sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles, killing his children, in buy to gather everyday living insurance policies income.
Ali F. Elmezayen, 45 was strike with the highest sentence for fees of wire fraud, mail fraud, identity theft, and revenue laundering in the scheme to kill his family for hundreds of thousands in insurance coverage income. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter identified as it an “evil and diabolical” plan throughout Thursday’s sentencing.
“He is the best phony and a skillful liar…and is nothing at all a lot more than a greedy and brutal killer,” Walter reported. “The only regret that the defendant has is that he received caught.”
Elmezeyan purchased extra than $3 million in daily life and accidental dying insurance guidelines for himself and his family concerning 2012 and 2013, about the identical time he concluded a Chapter 11 bankruptcy circumstance.
Prosecutors performed cellular phone phone recordings at trial in which Elmezeyan asked to ensure that the insurance policies had been active, would be compensated out on an accidental loss of life, and that the businesses would not investigate promises created two decades right after the procedures ended up acquired.
A lot less than two months following that two-yr period was in excess of, Elmezeyan drove his loved ones off a loading dock at the Port of Los Angeles. Elmezayen’s two seriously autistic sons — 13-calendar year-old Elhassan and 8-12 months-aged Abdelkrim — drowned soon after remaining trapped in the auto.
The boys’ mom, Rabab Diab, survived the crash following a fisherman threw her a flotation product. Elmezayen left his car window open up so that he was in a position to swim absent, prosecutors claimed. The few had a 3rd son together who was away at camp and was not in the car or truck at the time of the crash, in accordance to the U.S. Attorney’s Business for the Central District of California.
“Dissatisfied with his economical and loved ones predicament, Mr. Elmezayen fraudulently acquired millions of dollars in insurance policies on his typical-regulation wife and disabled younger sons, and then drove them off a pier in buy to income in,” U.S. Lawyer Nick Hanna mentioned. “These two boys deserved a loving father in its place they received a guy who set his greed and self-fascination previously mentioned their life.”
In addition to staying sentenced to 212 years in prison in the plot, Walter requested Elmezayen to pay $261,751 in restitution to the insurance policy companies.
Elmezeyan is also experiencing murder charges in a pending condition scenario, wherever he faces a maximum sentence of life in jail without the chance of parole.