Ali Elmezayen was convicted in October 2019 of more than a dozen federal charges including mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Federal prosecutors lacked jurisdiction for federal murder charges.
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A South Bay man was sentenced to 212 years in prison for defrauding insurance companies after driving his children and ex-wife off the Port of Los Angeles pier to collect on accidental death policies, a scheme the judge called "evil and diabolical.''
A Hawthorne man was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two autistic sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles into the ocean – drowning the boys who were trapped in the car – to collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on their lives.