Financier Back in U.S. to Face Counts
Fugitive financier Martin R. Frankel arrived in the U.S. from Germany to face dozens of state and federal charges on defrauding insurance companies in five states.
Frankel’s arraignment is scheduled for Monday in New Haven. Jury selection in his trial is tentatively set for April 4.
Frankel had been jailed in Hamburg, Germany, since his 1999 arrest in a waterfront hotel.
The manhunt began that May, four months earlier, when firefighters responding to an automatic alarm found a filing cabinet ablaze and two fireplaces stuffed with burning documents in Frankel’s Greenwich, Conn., mansion.
Among the discoveries, investigators say: a to-do list (item No. 1: “launder money”). Frankel was nowhere to be found.
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