Two Queens men recruited Russian computer whizzes to hack the taxi dispatch system at JFK Airport in a scheme that allowed drivers to skip to the front of the pick-up line, federal prosecutors char…
at JFK Airport in a scheme that allowed drivers to skip to the front of the pick-up line, federal prosecutors charged Tuesday. in 2019 with the help of other unnamed associates, some of them Russian nationals, according to an indictment filed in the Southern District of New York.
On days when they controlled the system, they would charge drivers waiting to be called to a terminal from a holding lot at the airport $10 to skip the queue — which frequently would have been an hours-long wait, according to the indictment.BRIGITTE STELZER “Shop open,” a member of the scheme would text the group chats when they had control of the system for the day.Members of the hacking scheme set up sprawling group chats among the drivers to let them know when they could cut the line.Abayev, Leyman and their co-conspirators registered up to 1,000 illegally expedited trips on a given day, according to the feds.
Both were cut loose on $100,000 bond at their presentments in Manhattan federal court Tuesday. They will have their travel monitored and will not be allowed to use internet-accessible devices unless they are monitored by pre-trial services.
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