September 19, 2017
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered a man who plundered South African lobster fisheries from 1987 to 2001 to fork over more than $30 million to the country, bumping up a previous restitution award after the poacher dodged his obligation to pay back victims of the overharvesting.
September 18, 2017
Counsel for a man who plundered South African lobster fisheries from 1987 until 2001 took issue Monday with a New York federal judge's decision that his client needs to forfeit an additional $37.2 million, saying that number was based on the price of whole lobsters, rather than the tails that were actually sold.
July 19, 2017
A Manhattan federal judge ordered Arnold M. Bengis, who plundered South African lobster fisheries from 1987 until 2001, to serve 57 months in prison and to forfeit an additional $37.3 million at a Wednesday resentencing convened after Bengis dodged his obligation to pay back the victims of his massive exploitation.
July 12, 2017
The Republic of South Africa told a New York federal judge Wednesday that the true value of the damage notorious rock lobster poacher Arnold M. Bengis did to the country's fisheries is $100 million and asked for a revised forfeiture order to reflect that amount.
May 15, 2017
The U.S. government's "relentless pursuit" of notorious rock lobster and wild fish poacher Arnold M. Bengis over 14 years amounts to an improper attempt to seize his family's foreign assets, his counsel told a Manhattan federal judge Friday ahead of a scheduled May 30 resentencing.