U.S.-Canadian Cooperation Results in Telemarketing Fraud Indictments of Gemstone Fraud

U.S. Attorney David M. Barasch announced on July 20, 1994, that a jury in Pennsylvania indicted 44 people involved in an international gemstone telemarketing investment scam involving approximately $35 million. This resulted in cooperation between Canada and the U.S. and the solidifying of the U.S.-Canadian Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaty...[more]....