Sholam Weiss Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Sholam Weiss is an American fraudster who was born on April 1, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently 69 years old. Weiss was convicted of racketeering, money laundering, and fraud in 2000. He was sentenced to 845 years in prison and ordered to pay $125 million in restitution. Weiss is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs approximately 160 pounds. Weiss is not known to be dating anyone at this time. Weiss comes from a Jewish family. His father was a rabbi and his mother was a homemaker. Weiss earned his net worth through his fraudulent activities. He was able to amass a fortune of over $400 million before his conviction. He is currently serving his sentence in a federal prison in Pennsylvania.

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According to a 2017 letter from Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern to US President Donald Trump, under Austrian law, Weiss would have received no more than a 10-year sentence, and Austria granted extradition on assurances from the United States that Weiss would receive a full appeal and full re-sentencing. Austria has requested Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump for a commutation of sentence to time served.

Weiss challenged his incarceration in federal court, arguing that the United States violated its extradition treaty with Austria by not providing a full re-sentencing and a full appeal (denied under the fugitive disentitlement doctrine), which United States assured Austria to effectuate the extradition. In 2009, a judge restored his right of appeal to satisfy the treaty obligation, and took ten years off his sentence. Weiss argued that the United States was also required to provide a full re-sentencing, but was denied for procedural reasons, with the court commenting that it was up to the Executive branch to satisfy the international obligation by a commutation of sentence.

On February 15, 2000, the Middle District Court of Florida (Orlando) sentenced Weiss, to 845 years (later reduced to 835 years) in prison for racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering, restitution of $125,016,656, and a fine of $123,399,910, in connection with the collapse of National Heritage Life Insurance Company (NHLC). His involvement did not result in any losses to the insurance company or the stakeholders in the company's policies. Weiss fled the country at the end of his trial and was a fugitive for one year, and was subsequently extradited from Austria.

At Weiss's sentencing on the National Heritage charges in February 2000, Judge Patricia C. Fawsett sentenced Weiss to 845 years in prison, with a fine of $123.4 million and ordered $125 million in restitution (which is jointly and severally with other co-defendant, and has fully been paid.)

Weiss surrendered to Austrian authorities in the fall of 2000, and was extradited back to the United States in 2002. The extradition was challenged at the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and the European Court of Human Rights, both of which noted that the United States provided assurances that Weiss would receive a full appeal and a full re-sentencing. The extradition was also raised in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, also noting the U.S. assurances.

After Windsor Plumbing declared bankruptcy in 1989, Weiss became a bankruptcy specialist. Through that business he met New York attorney Michael D. Blutrich, who was "outside counsel" to National Heritage Life Insurance Company, and his partner Lyle K. Pfeffer, also connected to National Heritage, through whom he became involved with National Heritage.

In late 1989, National Heritage reported an operating loss and 27% reduction of capital from a decline of sales, and in 1990 insurance regulators threatened to shut down the company if it did not raise additional capital. A group of investors, offered $4 million to satisfy regulators, in exchange for a controlling interest in National Heritage. The group provided a $4 million check, but once in control of National Heritage, transferred $3 million from National Heritage to help cover the check. This began a long series of schemes in which millions were stolen from National Heritage by the group of investors. Bad investments further depleted National Heritage capital creating a $35 million dollar hole plus an additional $10 million for the company. In the early 1993, the group decided to cover up all the missing money by a "mortgage-backed bond scheme". Weiss was contracted by the investment group to purchase discounted mortgages with National Heritage funds, which were put into a mortgage-backed bond.

The son of Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors, Weiss did construction work as a young man, and established Windsor Plumbing Supply in 1974, eventually making $20 million a year.

Sholam Weiss (born April 1, 1954) is an American former businessman and philanthropist currently incarcerated at FCI Otisville.