Facebook-Google Scammer Pleads Guilty in $121 Million Theft (2)

A Lithuanian man admitted he helped trick Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into sending more than $100 million through a phishing scheme.

Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge George Daniels on March 20 under an agreement with prosecutors and will forfeit $49.7 million. Rimasauskas was extradited to New York in August 2017. He faces as much as 30 years in prison when he is sentenced July 24.

Prosecutors alleged that Rimasauskas, along with some unidentified co-conspirators, helped orchestrate a scheme in which fake emails were sent to employees and agents of ...