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This is the second post in a series about two separate but related federal criminal cases: USA v. Casado, and USA v. Zarrab. The first post focused on the recent indictment of federal correctional officer Victor Casado for allegedly taking bribes to smuggle contraband into jail. This post focuses on the case against businessman Reza Zarrab who pled guilty to violating U.S. sanctions against Iran in October 2017.
Casado and Zarrab are roughly the same age, 35 and 34, respectively, although they come from very different backgrounds. Their fates became linked after Zarrab was transferred to the federal jail where Casado works in lower Manhattan in mid-2016, and Casado allegedly solicited a bribe from Zarrab.