A long-time fugitive extradited from Italy admitted in Newark federal court to engineering a nationwide mail fraud that targeted elderly and vulnerable people and reaped more than $10 million, federal prosecutors said.
A German citizen, Georg Ingenbleek, 58, pleaded guilty on Aug. 6 to two counts of mail fraud before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi. He was indicted in 2020, arrested in Bolzano, Italy in 2024, and extradited to New Jersey in May 2025. Sentencing is set for Dec. 17, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. in Newark.…