The federal government denied the vast majority of Nerayoff’s claims in a submitting of its personal, together with the assertion that Nerayoff’s colleague and former co-defendant on the extortion prices, Michael Hlady, was a authorities informant. Nerayoff’s attorneys preserve that Hlady, who was convicted of swindling Catholic nuns out of almost $400,000 in 2010, was “insinuated … into [his] orbit” by the FBI, with a view to assist them construct a case towards Nerayoff.