The federal government denied nearly all of Nerayoff’s claims in a submitting of its personal, together with the assertion that Nerayoff’s colleague and former co-defendant on the extortion fees, Michael Hlady, was a authorities informant. Nerayoff’s attorneys keep that Hlady, who was convicted of swindling Catholic nuns out of practically $400,000 in 2010, was “insinuated … into [his] orbit” by the FBI, with a view to assist them construct a case in opposition to Nerayoff.
