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A Canadian national who was arrested in Jamaica while reportedly on vacation, and extradited to the United States last month, has been charged with alleged involvement a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. Martin Hogan, a 52-year-old of Montreal, Canada, has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and international money laundering conspiracy. He appeared before US Magistrate, Judge Mark W Pedersen, on Monday, and was remanded in custody until March 1. The US Department of Justice, in a statement, said between September 2015 and March 2020, Hogan cons...

  MONTREAL -- A Montreal-area man went to sunny Jamaica over the holidays, only to be extradited from there to the United States to face fraud and money-laundering charges. Martin Hogan, 52, has been accused by U.S. authorities of bilking dozens of American seniors out of their savings in a cross-border swindle totalling as much as $2 million. According to the indictment, Hogan and several co-conspirators, both Canadian and American, told seniors they’d won a sweepstakes in Canada but needed to pay taxes or customs fees to release the money over the border. Five Americans were already...