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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An American deported from Canada pleaded guilty today to charges he duped the Egyptian government into paying more than $7 million for a shipment of frozen chicken he
never intended to deliver.
59-year-old Alexander Legault had moved from Louisiana to Canada before a grand jury in New Orleans indicted him on fraud charges in 1986. Legault also has been charged with participating in scams in
Texas and Florida. He remained a fugitive until his arrest last year.
Prosecutors allege Legault and Alphonse Joseph Demots Jr. were using aliases and operating their business out of an apartment in suburban New Orleans when the Egyptian government agreed to buy
5,000 metric tons of frozen chicken from them.
Investigators allege that after a bank wired more than $7 million to Legault’s corporate account, he created fake documents to make it appear that the chicken was aboard a Swedish vessel bound for Egypt and transferred $1.5 million of the money to a Grand Cayman Islands bank account.
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