Brooklyn Jury Deliberates Fate of Russian Known as 'King of Fraud'

A jury in Brooklyn, New York, is set to begin deliberating whether the Russian national Aleksandr Zhukov is guilty of being the “King of fraud,” as he texted in a 2014 message to an associate. According to federal prosecutors, Zhukov, 41, was the ringleader of an online scam that used 1,900 servers to create fake web traffic at media sites including the New York Times that led companies like Pepsi Co. to pay inflated advertising rates.

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