Germany Affirms Frankel German Conviction and His Extradition to the U.S.

On December 1, 2000, the German appellate court dealt a stinging defeat to high-rolling financier Martin R. Frankel, affirming his convictions in Germany and the US. extradition request on multiple counts. German authorities arrested Mr. Frankel, 45 and a native of Toledo, Ohio, in September 1999 at a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, where he had been hiding under an assumed name after an international investigation that had tracked him and various women employees in Italy, but from which he slipped for several months…[more]