{Charleston, West Virginia}...Wednesday, a grand jury in Charleston indicted Vivek M. Shah of West Hollywood, California of four counts of interfering with interstate commerce and using interstate commerce to threaten extortion after allegedly trying to extort $13 million from a West Virginia coal company executive and threatening to kill his relatives. An affidavit filed by a U.S. postal inspector who investigated the case says Shah also uses the aliases Ray Amin and Rohan Gill, and was staying at his father's home in Illinois, just before his arrest in Chicago about a week ago. Investigators found that Shah used prepaid debit cards, telephones, WiFi connections at a Starbucks near his home and the U.S. Postal Service to target five wealthy individuals. Only Christopher Cline, owner of Foresight Reserves LP, is named in the documents. Cline divides his time between homes in Beckley and North Palm Beach, Florida. Federal prosecutors in West Virginia's Southern District say they have jurisdiction over the case because that's where Cline and his family live.
