NBC News Logo. Covid Politics U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Search Search. Follow NBC News. By Antonio Planas and Rich Schapiro. Antonio Planas. He'd been ordered to report to federal prison in New Jersey the same day.
His rental car was later found abandoned at New York's John F. Kennedy airport. At the time, the bank scam Ruffo was found guilty of orchestrating was one of the largest in American history. Over the years, authorities have released a number of age-adjusted images showing what Ruffo may look like today, to no avail.
Authorities consider him armed and dangerous; he would be 66 years old today. Law enforcement had long suspected that he fled the U. On Aug. The tip, one of the most concrete leads investigators had received in years, quickly caught the attention of the U. Marshals Service, who are still attempting to identify the game attendee in question more than half a decade later. In September , a tip came in to investigators that Ruffo, now 66, had been at a Boston Red Sox and LA Dodgers baseball game in Los Angeles a month earlier, on August 5, , and that he was sitting about four rows up from home plate wearing a blue shirt, the Marshals Service said in a news release.
A video clip from the game confirmed a man fitting Ruffo's description was sitting several rows behind home plate. Read More. This is the last known image of him.
But even though they found the seat and identified the person who bought the seats, they haven't been able to identify the man in the blue shirt. But he never showed. An arrest warrant was issued the next day. US marshals found that on November 9, Ruffo drove a rental car to the long-term parking lot at John F.
Kennedy International Airport. It's believed he rented the car earlier that day in Manhattan and withdrew money from an ATM on the way to the New York airport, the Marshals Service said. Fireworks are set off after the Dodgers win the World Series.
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