Steven Nerayoff plans to sue U.S. government for $9.6 billion in alleged extortion

The government denied most of Nerayoff’s claims in its own filing, including the claim that Michael Hlady, Nerayoff’s associate and former co-defendant on the extortion charges, was a government informant. Nerayoff’s lawyers claim that Hlady, who was convicted of defrauding Catholic nuns of about $400,000 in 2010, was “infiltrated into (his) orbit” by the FBI to help build the case against Nerayoff. do.