Agents with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation were seeking Nicholas Cosmo, founder of Agape World Inc. in Hauppauge, New York, said a person who wasn’t authorized to speak about the case. Officials unsuccessfully sought to arrest Cosmo earlier today at his office and executed a search warrant of the premises and could be seen carrying out boxes of documents from the office.

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