The case investigated by the FBI  and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney involving three NY passengers for defrauding three cruise lines ended with prison sentences and fines.
United States Attorney Ronald Sharpe announced that New York residents Sam Gross, 25, Joseph Herskovitz, 27, and Jacob Eisenberger, 29, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Thursday. 
Sam Gross will serve 3 months in prison and needs to pay fine of  $36,283.91 in restitution. Joseph Herskovitz was sentenced to serve 2 months in prison and needs to pay $19,005.97 in restitution. Jacob Eisenberger was sentenced to 15 days in prison and ordered to pay $1,860.08 in restitution. All three man will serve three years of supervised release.

According to the evidence presented to the court, in January the sentenced men boarded Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas, and purchased merchandise from the ship using the onboard ship card. After one day onboard they left the ship in the first port with the purchased goods. All the passengers are required to pay the purchased items and onboard services at the end of the cruise, so the three New Yorkers used this policy to their advantage.

On Feb. 3, Eisenberger and Herskovitz did the same on Carnival Destiny and left the ship with considerable amount of merchandise.
Next on the list was Princess Cruise Line, when they boarded Dawn Princess two weeks later, they abandoned the ship without paying for the charged items.