JAMAICAN Gregory Gooden was yesterday extradited to the United States to face federal charges related to the international lottery scheme.
The United States Embassy, in a statement yesterday, said: “Mr Gooden was apprehended in Kingston in early July and ordered extradited after a hearing. Gooden is one of 14 defendants charged by the US Attorney for the District of North Dakota, in connection with an FBI and US Postal Service investigation of alleged conspiracy to defraud tens of millions of dollars from a group of victims, primarily elderly people living on fixed incomes.”