Ypsilanti father was a sexual predator, and an Amazon scammer at the same time

Mubasher Riaz had a medical degree and two daughters, yet he sexually preyed on depressed young girls, the FBI says, and also scammed online companies like Amazon out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. For a man who put himself through medical school, the government says, it didn’t have to be this way. But Riaz chose a lawless way of life, court records show, that ended with him getting caught and pleading guilty to both child exploitation and white-collar crimes. Now, in an unusual legal arrangement, the Ypsilanti man is going to pay $150,000 in restitution to the two minor girls he manipulated — for which he already was sentenced to 15½ years in prison — as part of the punishment for his financial crimes. In U.S. District Court on July 10, Riaz pleaded guilty to wire fraud, admitting he and his brother ran an online return scheme in which they bought products, submitted refund requests pretending the products were defective, but never sent them back. Instead, the FBI says, the brothers shipped back empty boxes, a counterfeit item, or a book that weighed as much as the purchased product, then kept the refunded money when it arrived. The brothers
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