A New York man has admitted in court that he made thousands of dollars selling fake law enforcement family member I.D. cards in New Jersey, federal prosecutors said.
Menashe Davidovitz, 31, of Airmont in Rockland County, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with the business and transactions of a federally funded local government and organization, conspiracy to sell false seals and conspiracy to sell official insignia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said in a statement.
Davidovitz, a real estate developer, worked with a former U.S. Air Marshal and other co-conspirators to sell the fraudulent identification cards from 2021 to 2023, the office said. The cards were embossed with a Department of Homeland Security insignia and a QR code that was linked to the ex-federal employee’s phone, federal prosecutors said…