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h an e Rams un dar, 5 2 , h i s wi f e , Go mat e e Rams un dar, 4 7 , an d t h e i r daug h t e r, S h an t al Rams undar, 2 3 , al l o f So uth Ri chmo nd Hi l l , Queens were co nv i cted Wednes day (No v ember 2 2 ) o f s eco nd-and thi rd-deg ree g rand l arceny, fi rs t- and s eco nddeg ree mo ney l aunderi ng , fi rs t-deg ree cri mi nal i mpers o nati o n and fi rs t-deg ree s cheme to defraud, fo l l o wi ng a nearl y three-mo nth jury tri al befo re Queens Supreme Co urt Jus ti ce Kenneth C. Ho l der. Sentencing is set for car repair company, Baba Boost January 11, 2012, at which Racing, Inc., of Long Island time the Ramsundars face hun- City, of which Shantal dreds of years in prison. Ramsundar is the president and According to the trial testi- Gomatee Ramsundar is the manmony, the three Ramsundars ager. In total, the Ramsundars held Shane out to be a federal received a total of more than agent complete with a real- $1.5 million from eleven viclooking gun, a badge and false tims. ID card and a deeply religious It is further alleged that, in Pandit, who could obtain cheap carrying out the immigration governmentally seized real portion of their scheme, Shane estate properties in Florida and Ramsundar again posed as an the Ozone Park/Richmond ICE/FBI agent and convinced Hill/Jamaica areas of Queens. victims that he could use his In particular, the two elder insider access to get people Ramsundars claimed that the green cards, have them removed government allowed their spe- from deportation lists, and even cial agents first option to buy get them off terrorist watch the properties seized from tax lists in exchange for sums of evaders and drug dealers cheap- money. ly, prior to their public auction. Gomatee Ramsundar aided Shane Ramsundar then told her husband by convincing his victims that he would pur- some of the victims that he chase properties and obtain could obtain the necessary mortgages for them, with his immigration documents, and special government connec- was present when some of the tions, and then transfer the victims turned over their deeds over to them, and they money. could live in the residences or Shantal Ramsundar also re-sell them at great profit. aided in the scheme by holding Checks were laundered her father out as an FBI agent, through eleven different bank and by cashing checks and launaccounts eight belonging to dering substantial amounts of Shantal Ramsundar and three the proceeds through bank belonging to the familys race accounts in her name.
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