Written by Rachel Windsor
The Mt. Lebanon Police Department initiated an interstate investigation with the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation into crimes defrauding senior citizens of an estimated $26 million in proceeds between January 2024 and August 2025. The men accused of the crimes — 28-year-old Trevaughn J. Yearwood of Florida and 46-year-old Amit Kumar Jain of Virginia — were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on December 5, 2025, of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The scam extended beyond western Pennsylvania, targeting victims in West Virginia and several states along the east coast.
According to the indictment, Jain and Yearwood conspired to defraud seniors by sending deceptive emails that led victims to part with tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, or to make substantial deposits of cash into Bitcoin ATMs, and used fictitious entities to launder the money through accounts at a bank in Vienna, Virginia.
For their parts in the scam, Jain is facing up to 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million, and Yearwood up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine. The investigation is still ongoing…