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White Plains
News
Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Scheme: Pair Of Former Execs At White Plains Company Sentenced
Two former high-ranking executives have been sentenced for stealing millions of dollars from their employer in Westchester County through a fraudulent scheme involving sham companies and fake invoices. The two worked at OrthoNet, a healthcare claims processing company based in White Plains. Shawn Rains, age 57, of Le Bouscat, France, who was previously convicted of mail fraud conspiracy, mail fraud, and money laundering conspiracy after a two-week trial, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Northern Westchester resident Joseph Maharaj, age 42, of Goldens Bridge, had pl…
Teaneck
Police & Fire
Teaneck Tax Preparer Got $1.43M For Himself, $40M For Clients In COVID Scam: Indictment
A Teaneck tax preparer illegally collected $1.43 million for himself and $40 million for clients from the IRS by purposefully exploiting COVID-related credits that neither he nor they were entitled to, a federal indictment alleges. Leon Haynes, 50, was originally arrested on a criminal complaint last July. The investigation leading to the charges continued before a grand jury in Newark. The result: a 55-count indictment for tax evasion, preparing false returns, aggravated ID theft and mail fraud, authorities said. Haynes fraudulently sought more than $150 million from the IRS by claim…
Baltimore
Business
Foreign Nationals Convicted Of Multi-Million Dollar Phony iPhone Scheme In Maryland, DC: Feds
A pair of Chinese nationals living in Maryland have been convicted on federal charges for an elaborate scheme to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones, authorities announced. Haotian Sun, of Baltimore, and Pengfei Xuem, of Germantown, both 33, were found guilty this week for their roles in a sophisticated operation involving upwards of 5,000 devices. According to prosecutors, between May 2017 and September 2019, Sun, Xue, and other conspirators defrauded Apple Inc. by submitting counterfeit phones to Apple for repair to get the company to exchange them with genuine …
Prince George's
News
Landover Hills Brothers Accused Of Multi-Million Dollar Lottery Scheme: DOJ
Maryland brothers Dwayne and Wayne Henry have been accused in a lottery scheme that defrauded victims of more than $3.5 million, authorities announced Wednesday, Jan. 24. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the brothers, both of Landover Hills, for conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland. Dwayne and Wayne Henry, ages 32 and 34, respectively, are accused of contacting victims by mail and over the phone from October 2020 to December 2023 and convincing them that they had won millions of dollars in a lottery drawing or sweepstakes, bu…
New London
News
Colchester Man Steals Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars From Tech Company: Here's His Sentence
A Connecticut man has received his sentence after stealing tens of thousands of dollars in products from a technology company, federal officials announced. New London County resident Myron Ware of Colchester, age 49, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 3 to three years of probation for defrauding a computer technology company, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut announced. According to federal officials, between 2017 and 2020, Ware would identify companies and organizations that had previously bought computer parts and components from the Texas-based company tha…
Bucks
News
Philly Car Salesman Ripped Off Wheelchair-Bound Buyers For $2.5M, Feds Say
A used car salesman in Philadelphia faces federal charges for allegedly scamming $2.5 million from his customers, authorities say. Edward Scott Rock, 47, is accused of mail and wire fraud, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Between 2019 and 2023, investigators claim Rock accepted payment for about 120 cars equipped for wheelchair users or people with disabilities, but never delivered the vehicles. Authorities say he took $2.5 million from victims across 36 states, about two-thirds of whom were either physically disabl…
White Plains
News
$4M Scheme: Duo Nabbed After Stealing From White Plains-Based Company, Feds Say
Two men, including a Northern Westchester resident, have been convicted on charges related to their scheme to steal more than $4 million from a Westchester-based healthcare claims processing company, officials announced. Shawn Rains, age 57, of Le Bouscat, France, and Joseph Maharaj, age 42, of Goldens Bridge, were both found guilty of mail fraud charges following their theft of over $4 million from White Plains-based OrthoNet, the US Attorney's Office for Southern District of New York announced on Monday, Oct. 23. According to federal officials, Rains had been an exec…
Wilton
News
$248K Scheme: Wilton Man Admits Selling 145 Fraudulent Paintings To Victims
A Fairfield County man has admitted to participating in a scheme to sell counterfeit paintings and defrauding victims out of more than $248,000. Wilton resident Nicholas Hatch, age 29, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug. 7 to a fraud offense resulting from his scheme to sell fraudulent paintings, according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. According to federal officials, Hatch, the owner of Norwalk-based estate sales company Hatch Estate Services LLC, used various websites between April 2020 and January 2022 to …
Teaneck
Police & Fire
Teaneck Tax Preparer Busted By IRS In $32.6 Million COVID Fraud
A tax preparer from Teaneck was arrested Monday for illegally collecting more than $1 million for himself and $31.6 million for clients in tax refunds by filing fraudulent returns with the government, federal authorities said. Leon Haynes, 49, sought $124.8 million combined from the IRS in nearly 1,400 bogus tax formers that he filed claiming COVID-related employment tax credits, said U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and Acting Deputy U.S. Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg. "Based on Haynes’ false claims about his own companies, the U.S. Treasury mailed him multiple tax re…
Fort Lee
Police & Fire
Mastermind Of Historic $175M Psychic Mail Scam Convicted, Feds Cite More Than 1M Victims
The mastermind of a mass-mailing scam that stole $175 million from more than a million victims, most of them elderly or ailing, was convicted by a federal jury in New York City. Patrice Runner, a 57-year-old Canadian and French citizen, directed a ruthless psychic mail scheme for over two decades, beginning in 1994, the jurors found. It was one of the largest -- if not the largest -- scam of its kind ever, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday, June 16, in announcing the verdict reached a day earlier on Long Island. Runner sent mailings to millions of Americans that claimed t…
New London
News
$450K Scheme: Norwich Man Admits Helping Defraud Victims On Social Media
A Connecticut man faces more than 20 years in prison after admitting to taking part in a scheme to defraud numerous victims by befriending them on social media. New London County resident Dexter Enwerem, age 36, of Norwich, pleaded guilty to taking part in a scheme to defraud women through social media on Tuesday, May 23, according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. According to federal officials, between September 2019 and March 2021, a co-conspirator of Enwerem would contact multiple victims, who were mostly women, through their Facebook and Inst…
Norfolk
Police & Fire
Mass Dentist Who Embezzled $1.2M Gets 2 Years In Prison: Feds
A Massachusetts dentist who admitted to embezzling more than $1.2 million from his practice and fraudulently receiving $50,000 in pandemic relief cash is heading to prison, authorities said. Jack Massarsky, 65, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and three years of probation earlier this week, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud in January. Massarsky worked as a dentist and bookkeeper at a Hyannis practice in Cape Cod, and he admitted to opening a secret bank account in the practice's name to deposit insurance checks se…
Suffolk NY
News
$5 Million Fraud Scheme: Man Who Scammed Suffolk County Resident Indicted
The scammer, along with co-conspirators, conned a Long Island man out of approximately $5.3 million, which they spent nearly all of. On Tuesday, April 25 at the Central Islip federal court, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, along with a New York FBI director, announced the charges against Odera Odabi. Odabi is charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, according to the announcement. The 54-year-old Georgia man is alleged to have falsely informed a Suffolk County resident (known in the case as John Doe) that he needed to p…
Essex NJ
News
Love At First Site: Ex-NJ Couple, Nigerian Wingman Charged In $4.5M Cyberfootsies Scam
A former New Jersey couple and a Nigerian national scammed more than 100 lonely hearts out of $4.5 million in an elaborate online romance scheme, federal authorities charged. Martins Inalegwu, 34, of Philadelphia and Steincy Mathieu, 26, of Brooklyn cooked up the plot with Moses Chukwuebuka Alexander and several of his Nigerian brethren, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges. Together, they trolled online dating and social media sites for willing marks, whom they “wooed with words of love” on the phone and in emails, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. T…
Northern Valley
News
Bergen Man Admits Conning Seniors Out Of $1.6M While Awaiting Sentencing For Similar Scam
A Bergen County man admitted in federal court that he ran a mail-fraud scheme that conned senior citizens out of more than $1.6 million while awaiting sentencing for his role in a similar fraud, authorities said. Ryan Young, 40, of Upper Saddle River, had pleaded guilty in February 2018 to participating in a large-scale international mail-fraud scheme that fleeced victims of $50 million. The scammer sent fraudulent prize notification letters to victims in the U.S. and other countries falsely claiming that they’d won money or valuable prizes, such as luxury cars, federal authorities said. V…
Norfolk
Police & Fire
Randolph Woman Hid $3.2M In Payroll To Avoid Nearly $1M In Taxes: Feds
A Norfolk County woman was arrested and indicted on Friday, March 10, in a yearslong scheme to withhold millions in profits and hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, federal authorities said. Lilian Giang, 53, of Randolph, is charged with mail fraud and failure to collect and pay over taxes, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. A judge released her with conditions following her appearance in court Friday. Investigators said that from 2015 through 2019, Giang owned Able Temp Agency, a temporary employment agency in Quincy that served businesses across Massachusetts. …
Paramus
News
'Love Psychic' Convinced Client To Mail $90M In Jewels To Paramus, Federal Court Docs Say
A precious, pink, 13.15-carat diamond from Qatar was among the $90 million worth of jewelry that a New Jersey relationship psychic convinced a client to swipe in his quest for love, court papers say. John Lee, who has a mailing address on Route 17 in Paramus, met his alleged victim on a website called Purple Garden, where he posed as a "love expert" under the username 1111Giovanni1111, federal prosecutors said in court papers filed in Florida. Lee, of Davenport, FL, convinced his victim — who worked for a wealthy individual in Qatar — to send him jewelry to be cleansed of bad spirits in Jun…
Nassau
News
Uniondale Woman Avoids Prison After Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme With Inmate
A Long Island woman won’t serve any time behind bars after admitting that she fraudulently obtained thousands of dollars in unemployment insurance benefits by impersonating a prison inmate. Briana Garland, age 30, of Uniondale, was sentenced to two years of probation in federal court in Albany on Thursday, Feb. 2. It followed her guilty plea to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Federal prosecutors said Garland submitted a false unemployment insurance claim to the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) in the name of Reginald Thornton, an inmate at Bare Hill prison in …
Middlesex MA
Police & Fire
California Man Admits To Stealing $1.2M From His Wilmington Employer Over 16 Years
Most everyone has swiped something small from work, but one California man admitted to taking $1.2 million from his job at a Wilmington company for16 years. Darrell Pikes, 56, pleaded guilty to mail fraud as a result of the scheme this week in a federal court in Boston, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Pike worked as a general manager for a company in Ontario, California, a subsidiary of a Wilmington Company. From 2005 until 2016, Pike submitted fake invoices from a fake company he conjured up called Consumer Information Systems that purportedly provided temporary st…
Yonkers
News
Yonkers Man Among Trio Nabbed In $701K Fraud Scheme, Feds Say
Three men are facing federal charges for allegedly using other people’s identities to defraud the New York Labor Department out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Errol Murray, age 21, of Yonkers; Taliek Lanier, age 22, of Albany; and Thomas Brace, age 61, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, formerly of Albany, were all arrested on federal charges of mail and wire fraud, plus identity theft. Federal prosecutors said the trio conspired with a 36-year-old Albany woman, Jamie Johnson, and provided her with the personal identifying information of other people. Jonson pleaded guilty in February 2022 of…
Capital District
News
Former State Employee From Albany Pleads Guilty To Unemployment Insurance Fraud
A former employee at the New York State Department of Labor has admitted to using his position to commit unemployment insurance fraud. Albany resident Wendell Giles, age 52, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft Thursday, Aug. 25, in federal court in Albany. Original Report: Former State Employee From Albany Indicted For Unemployment Insurance Fraud Prosecutors had alleged that Giles conspired with another NYSDOL worker, Carl DiVeglia, to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits, including federally funded pandemic relief benefits. Together, they submi…
Montgomery PA
News
Montco Dad Gets Probation In College Admissions Scandal
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced in Boston on Thursday, Aug. 11 to one year of probation for bribing a Georgetown University coach into recruiting his daughter, according to the US Attorney's Office for Massachusetts. Robert Repella, 63, of Ambler, will serve the first 25 days of his sentence in home detention, as well as complete 220 hours of community service and pay a $220,000 fine, the office said. The former CEO of Harmony Biosciences pleaded guilty in May 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Repella agreed to pay Gordon E…
Suffolk MA
News
PA Dad Prosecuted In MA Gets Probation In College Admissions Scandal
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced in Boston on Thursday, Aug. 11 to one year of probation for bribing a Georgetown University coach into recruiting his daughter, according to the US Attorney's Office for Massachusetts. Robert Repella, 63, of Ambler, will serve the first 25 days of his sentence in home detention, as well as complete 220 hours of community service and pay a $220,000 fine, the office said. The former CEO of Harmony Biosciences pleaded guilty in May 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Repella agreed to pay Gordon E…
Capital District
News
Albany Man Admits To $207K Unemployment Insurance Fraud
A Capital District man could spend decades in federal prison after admitting to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits. Kahleke Taylor, age 21, of Albany, pleaded guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft charges Tuesday, Aug. 9, in federal court in Albany. Prosecutors said Taylor stole the personal information of other people on social media and then used that information to file false unemployment insurance applications with the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL). On one application, filed in A…
Worcester
News
Company Owner In Massachusetts Sentenced For Tax, Fraud Schemes
The owner of a Massachusetts plumbing company will spend more than a year behind bars for overbilling customers for work he never performed and engaging in a near $1.5 million tax evasion scheme, federal authorities announced. Prosecutors said that plumbing contractor Jared “Jay" Derrico, age 35, of the town of Boxford in Essex County, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion and two counts of mail fraud in February. In addition to his prison time, Derrico was ordered to forfeit $315,00…
Nassau
News
Ex-LI Resident Indicted For Massive Fraud Scheme Involving Sports Betting
A former New Yorker is accused of being the mastermind of a massive sports betting fraud scheme that bilked victims out of tens of millions of dollars. Cory Zeidman, age 61, formerly of Long Island, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. He was arrested Wednesday, May 25, in Florida, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the East District. Federal prosecutors said Zeidman used national radio ads to lure sports fans into believing that they could “get in on the ground floor” of his phony sports betting organization and that it could provide i…
Ocean
News
Amtrak Worker Gets 18 Months Without Parole For Selling Stolen Agency Equipment
UPDATE: A now-former Amtrak employee from the Jersey Shore was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for selling hundreds of chainsaws and chainsaw parts that he stole from the agency. Jose Rodriguez, 49, of Brick, will have to serve out the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Rodriguez had collected 114 chainsaws, 122 chainsaw replacement bars and 222 replacement chains worth more than $76,000 before he was caught, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He sold the items through online auction and directly to buyers, using the U.S. Postal Serv…
Mercer
News
NJ Feds: California Gal Admits Running $9.9 Million Counterfeit Coupon Scam
UPDATE: A California woman admitted in federal court in New Jersey that she created and sold more than $9.9 million worth of counterfeit coupons used at retail stores throughout the country. Using the name “Mandy Carr,” Tong Lor printed Carolina coupons with fake bar codes for household items such as diapers, laundry detergent, and toiletries and then mailed them to customers nationwide, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Lor, 34, of Modesto sold the counterfeit coupons via invitation-only Internet groups associated with her businesses: Mandy’s Treasure Box, Mandy's Knitting …
Brookfield
News
Ex-Employee From Connecticut Charged For $575K Corporate Fraud Scheme, Feds Say
A Connecticut man has been charged in an alleged scheme to defraud his former employer out of more than $575,000. Hartford County resident Ariel Legassa, age 49, of the town of Burlington, was arrested and charged with mail fraud, according to a report from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts on Wednesday, Feb. 2. Legassa made his first appearance in federal court on Wednesday, the report said. Legassa is accused of orchestrating a scheme to defraud New England Sports Network from December 2020 to January 2022. He allegedly negotiated a le…
Essex NJ
Police & Fire
NJ Scammer Admits Selling Bogus Tom Brady Super Bowl Rings
A 24-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to fraud for pretending to be a New England Patriots player to buy and sell Super Bowl rings engraved with Tom Brady's last name, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, Feb. 2. Scott V. Spina Jr., of Roseland, could face decades in prison when he's sentenced May 23, for charges of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, authorities said. Spina's guilty plea comes one day after the quarterback announced his retirement after 22 seasons and seven Super Bowl titles. Spina ordered three replica Super Bo…
Mt. Kisco
News
NY Man Admits To Multi-Million Dollar Scheme
A 74-year-old New York man has pleaded guilty to a charge related to a multi-million dollar mass-mailing scheme that tricked victims into paying fees for falsely-promised cash prizes. Long Island resident Carmine Maietta, of Westbury, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud on Wednesday, Jan. 26, according to Breon Peace, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From November 2013 through November 2018, Maietta was part of a scheme to mail false prize notifications to thousands of people, urging them to pay a fee in return for a large cash prize, …
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