A man who federal authorities say tried to smuggle $770,000 to Yemen in Alka-Seltzer and other medicine boxes claims he was tricked by family members into committing the crime.
Abdulkarim Altareb, 50, a Yemeni-born Harlem man, “was bamboozled by family to carry” the money in 2015, defense attorney Robert Feldman told The Post outside Brooklyn federal court Tuesday.
Altareb simply thought he was bringing difficult-to-obtain supplies back to his family in Yemen when he was busted at JFK Airport, Feldman said.
His trial is set to begin July 25.