A car-service driver has pleaded guilty to fraud for taking a businessman on what is probably the most expensive airport cab ride in New York history.
Peter Rahhaoui, a Queens limo operator, admitted billing a Hong Kong mogul’s credit card nearly $800,000 after driving him 13 miles from Teterboro Airport to Manhattan in 2008.
Tony Chan, a megamillionaire and feng-shui master, did not notice the startlingly exorbitant charges and learned of them only after he was notified by bank security.
Rahhaoui, of Flushing, pleaded guilty to credit-card fraud before Judge Carol Amon in Brooklyn federal court. The chauffeur, his attorney, and federal prosecutors had been poised to travel to Hong Kong to conduct a formal videotaped deposition and cross-examination of Chan at the US Consulate there.