Breon Peace, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced the sentencing of Julien Levy and Keily Nunez to prison for defrauding JetBlue Airways of approximately $10 million through fraudulent aircraft part invoices. Photo: Peter K. Afriyie/AP
Julien Levy and Keily Nunez were sentenced to 40 and 20 months in prison, respectively, on Friday in federal court in Brooklyn for defrauding JetBlue Airways of approximately $10 million.
The sentences were announced by Breon Peace, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Ivan J. Arvelo, special agent-in-charge of Homeland Security Investigations, following the duo’s guilty pleas to committing honest services wire fraud.
Levy, who is from Englewood, New Jersey, and Nunez, from Jamaica, New York, engaged in a scheme that involved manipulating contracts and the identity theft of a deceased employee to bypass JetBlue’s internal controls.