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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ali-el...autistic-children-to-their-deaths-2018-11-14/
LOS ANGELES -- An Egyptian man was held without bail Tuesday on federal charges of fraudulently collecting insurance payouts after driving his severely autistic children to their deaths when he sped off a pier into the Port of Los Angeles.

Ali Elmezayen plotted for over two years before launching his plan into action April 9, 2015, when he barreled down a commercial fishing dock in San Pedro, turned his Honda abruptly toward a parking space and gunned the engine, federal authorities said.

"Witnesses heard the tires of the car screech loudly and saw the car accelerate before it flew off the edge of the wharf, crashed into the water and immediately sunk," FBI agent Matthew Parker wrote in an affidavit in support of Elmezayen's arrest last week.

Elmezayen's car window was open, and he surfaced within 30 seconds and swam to a ladder on the pier. His partner, Rabab Diab, couldn't swim, but she was rescued by a fisherman after surfacing and screaming, "My kids, my kids."
Two boys, Abdelkarim, 8, and Elhassan, 13, couldn't swim and were strapped in child seats. They were pulled lifeless from the car by rescue divers and died from drowning.
Elmezayen collected more than $260,000 in insurance payouts for the deaths and wired more than $170,000 back to his native Egypt, prosecutors said.

Elmezayen, 44, did not enter a plea in the case in U.S. District Court, but he has told investigators and others he may have accidentally accelerated instead of hitting the brake, according to court papers. He blamed the city, Honda, and Jiffy Lube and others for negligence.

"In short, there were functionally no precautionary measures taken by any public defendant to this action to prevent a car from plunging into the deep waters below the berth," a lawsuit filed in 2016 stated, CBS Los Angeles reported. "This (also) included a lack of adequate signage or other such warnings to the public."
His lawsuit was tossed out.

The Los Angeles County district attorney declined to bring charges in the deaths because of insufficient evidence. A police mechanic found evidence that the brake pedal didn't properly work, but couldn't tell if that was the case before the tragedy or because of salt water corrosion.

While a county prosecutor said the father's explanation could create reasonable doubt, they suggested police tell federal prosecutors about evidence of insurance and other fraud. Federal investigators said they found that Elmezayen spent about a quarter of his reported $24,000 salary to insure himself, his longtime partner and three sons for $6 million.

Elmezayen repeatedly called insurers to confirm they wouldn't automatically investigate a claim made more than two years after a policy was written, federal prosecutors said. The deadly plunge occurred two years and 12 days after the final policy took effect, authorities said.

Prosecutors argued that Elmezayen should not be free awaiting trial because he was likely to flee to his homeland. They also argued he still posed a danger to Diab because he had intended to kill her and still pays premiums on her life insurance policy and that of another son, who was at camp when his siblings were killed.

A public defender representing Elmezayen argued that nothing had happened to Diab and the other son in over three years. He asked to have Elmezayen use $250,000 in equity in two houses he owns to secure his bond.

Elmezayen and Diab came to the U.S. in 2000 and overstayed their tourist visas, prosecutors said. Both married other partners in hopes of becoming permanent residents. Elmezayen has acknowledged his was a sham marriage.
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Denied bond.
 
$DEITY, that whole thing stinks. It is well worth keeping up with.

--Al
 
I think that nothing has happened to the wife for nearly 3 years means nothing. He waited more than 2 years to kill the boys, he has patience. Also how in the hell can he spend a quarter of his annual $24,000 on insurance and still have equity in 2 $250,000 houses? Even without the insurance how can he do that?

I'm convinced, he's done something like this before.
 
Also how in the hell can he spend a quarter of his annual $24,000 on insurance and still have equity in 2 $250,000 houses?
That's just one of the many smelly things about this story.

--Al
 
I think that nothing has happened to the wife for nearly 3 years means nothing. He waited more than 2 years to kill the boys, he has patience. Also how in the hell can he spend a quarter of his annual $24,000 on insurance and still have equity in 2 $250,000 houses? Even without the insurance how can he do that?

$24K annual earnings and plenty of money to buy things suggests he does a lot of business under the table.
 
A father accused of driving his two autistic sons off a Los Angeles pier and killing them so he could make a claim on an insurance policy wept in court as his trial for alleged fraud got underway.

Ali Elmezayen, 44, faces two counts of murder in the deaths of eight-year-old Abdelkarim and Elhassan, 13, and one count of attempted murder for his partner, Rabab Diab, who survived the incident.

Diab, who was rescued by fishermen as she was unable to swim, is now a prosecution witness in the insurance fraud trial at a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

According to a criminal complaint, Elmezayen purchased several accidental death insurance policies providing more than $6million in coverage on himself, his domestic partner and his children in 2012 and 2013.

He called at least two of the insurance companies to confirm they would not investigate claims made two years after the policies were purchased.

Elmezayen then collected more than $260,000 in insurance proceeds from American General Life Insurance and Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance on the accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on the children’s lives.

Federal prosecutors allege that he had plotted for over two years before launching his plan into action April 9, 2015.

In the insurance fraud trial, Defense attorney Christine O'Connor said that Elmezayen bought the policies to protect his family - that he had 'under-the-table income to pay the premiums,' ABC7 reported.

Elmezayen's defense team claimed that he was not cunning, but rather, 'kind of a kook' and 'complicated,' but that he was not a monster.

Elmezayen faces a separate trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for the murder of his sons.

Investigators said Elmezayen intentionally barreled off the edge of commercial fishing dock in San Pedro with his partner and two children inside the vehicle.

Elmezayen's car window was open, and he surfaced within 30 seconds and swam to a ladder on the pier.
 
A father was found guilty Tuesday of driving his wife and two disabled sons off a dock at the Port of Los Angeles in 2015 so that he could collect life insurance money, federal prosecutors said.

A jury convicted 45-year-old Ali F. Elmezayen of Hawthorne on 14 federal felony counts including money laundering, mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

In a separate case, Elmezayen is still facing murder charges in the deaths of his two sons with autism, 13-year-old Elhassan and 8-year-old Abdelkrim, and an attempted murder charge for his wife, who couldn’t swim but managed to survive the crash.
 
Ali Elmezayen, 45, was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two autistic sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles into the ocean – drowning the boys who were trapped in the car – to collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on their lives.

"He is the ultimate phony and a skillful liar…and is nothing more than a greedy and brutal killer," Walter said. "The only regret that the defendant has is that he got caught."

The judge also ordered Elmezayen to pay $261,751 in restitution to the insurance companies that he defrauded.

Ryan said that Elmezayen -- a native of Egypt with no legal status in the United States -- had been planning the scheme for two years. During 2012 and 2013 Elmezayen purchased eight accidental death and life insurance policies for his ex-wife and children. If the policies had paid off on all the family members, he would have received more than $6 million, Ryan said.

"[Elmezayen] murdered his disabled children and attempted to murder his ex-wife for money," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum. "After years of physically and emotionally abusing his ex-wife and neglecting the children, [Elmezayen] bought $3.4 million in insurance on their lives, waited for two years so the insurance companies would not contest his claims, and then drove them into the ocean, leaving them to drown. That was [Elmezayen’s] fraudulent scheme. It was also premeditated murder."
 

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