Burlington County Man Sentenced to 33 Months for $4 Million Money Laundering Scheme

Pablo Estrada, 27, laundered proceeds from a mail fraud scheme, including lottery scams.

Florence, NJ – Pablo Estrada, 27, of Burlington County, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his role in laundering over $4 million obtained from various scams. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced the sentencing today.

Estrada had previously pleaded guilty to money laundering charges before Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb, who imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.

Between August 2020 and January 2023, Estrada received funds from victims of several scams, including an advance fee lottery scam. Victims were deceived into believing they had won large sums of money and needed to pay fees to claim their winnings. Estrada deposited these fraudulent proceeds into multiple bank accounts, transferred the funds to other accounts, and kept a portion for himself. His laundering activities totaled more than $4 million.

In addition to his prison term, Judge Bumb sentenced Estrada to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $4.21 million in restitution.

The investigation was credited to postal inspectors from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Newark, special agents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and IRS-Criminal Investigation. Additional thanks were given to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office and the Florence Township Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel A. Friedman of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division in Camden represented the government in this case.