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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A fugitive American psychiatrist accused of arranging a bogus $70,000 liver transplant was arrested in the Philippines and will be returned to the U.S. to stand trial, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Jerome Howard Feldman, 67, was indicted last month on federal wire-fraud charges and arrested Feb. 2 in Manila, acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Baxter said. Feldman had been a fugitive since 2001.
The federal indictment said he used aliases to trick a De Witt, N.Y., couple into wiring him $70,000 to arrange a liver transplant at a Philippine hospital. The husband died July 11 at the hospital without receiving a transplant, Baxter said.
