Husband of woman stabbed to death in Century City garage is arrested
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Pamela Fayed.
James Fayed was taken into custody at his Ventura County home on charges connected to the gold trading company he ran with his wife, the FBI says. The couple were involved in a divorce.
By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 3, 2008
The husband of a woman stabbed to death in the parking garage of a Century City high-rise last week was arrested late Friday on federal charges related to the international gold trading company he ran with his wife, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed today.
FBI agents took James Fayed into custody at his home in a remote area of Ventura County, said Laura Eimiller. Fayed was taken to Ventura County Jail and is expected make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court early next week. Eimiller declined to specify the charges against Fayed, but another source, who asked not be named because he was not authorized to talk about the search, said he had been indicted as a result of an FBI fraud investigation.
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He was arrested following searches of his home and business, the source said.
Fayed's wife, Pamela, was attacked by a man with a knife on Monday in the parking garage of a Century City office complex where she had been visiting a lawyer. The couple were involved in a divorce and had been fighting bitterly over their jointly owned company, Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales and an associated Internet firm, E-Bullion.
Los Angeles police detectives investigating Pamela Fayed's slaying have been looking for possible links between her death and the family business, law enforcement sources have said. Police searched James Fayed's home looking for evidence in the case earlier this week, a source said.
Mark Werksman, Fayed's attorney and a former federal prosecutor, said he was troubled by the timing of his client's arrest.
"They accelerated this as a result of Pam's death on Monday," he said. "I believe they are using this as a tactic to apply pressure."
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