A JetBlue employee and a resident from New Jersey were sentenced Friday in federal court in Brooklyn for a fraud scheme involving JetBlue Airways, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The DOJ says 39-year-old Julien Levy, of Englewood, and 44-year-old Keily Nunez, a former JetBlue employee from Jamaica, New York, defrauded JetBlue Airways of $10 million.
The department says between July 2017 and June 2021, Nunez and another JetBlue unnamed employee accepted bribes from Levy in exchange for approving more than $1.5 million in aircraft part invoices between JetBlue and Levy’s company, Summit Aviation Supply.
According to the DOJ, Nunez also accepted bribes in connection with his approval of more than $8.5 million in aircraft part invoices between JetBlue and Alaris Aerospace Systems, a Florida-based aircraft parts seller a co-conspirator controlled.
HSI New York Special Agent in Charge Ivan Arvelo says Levy and Nunez abused their positions of power to orchestrate a scheme that defrauded JetBlue Airways.