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CT Woman Who Claimed $50K In Charges On AmEx Were Not Hers, Charged With Fraud, Police Say
An area woman was arrested for allegedly charging more than $55,000 on her American Express card and then illegally reporting that it had been used without her permission.
Susan Tedesco, 58, of Orange, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 6, on a larceny charge, said the Milford Police.
According to police, Tedesco was arrested on an active warrant for making the charges from July 2016 through Dec. 2018 and then making a fraud complaint that was found not to be true.
Tedesco was held on a $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 2.
Sandra Papone, Longtime Resident Of Greenwich, Chaired Alzheimers Gala, Dies
A Greenwich resident of 50 years, Sandra Papone, who was chair of Alzheimer's Society galas, died Saturday, Aug. 24 of heart failure. She was 87.
She was born on July 6, 1932, in New York City.
Papone is survived by her husband Aldo Papone, her daughter, Renata Papone-Lally, and her son-in-law Christopher Lally.
Her "greatest joy" were her grandchildren, Gregory and Alexandra. "Sandra would light up the minute they walked into the room," said the obituary.
Working in Manhattan at a small Italian clothing boutique called Barra of Italy on Park Avenue in the early '50s, she met …
Stamford Woman Admits To Embezzlement Scheme
A Stamford woman has agreed to pay more than a million dollars in restitution to her former employer after pleading guilty to a scheme that lasted more than four years where she embezzled more than $800,000 to PayPal and Venmo accounts.
Candace Rispoli, 31, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, stemming back to an embezzlement scheme that began in January 2012, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced.
Beginning in January 2012, and lasting through June 2016, Rispoli was an employee at Lodestone Management Consultants, which later became k…
Woman Admits Stealing $1.1M From Darien BMW Dealer
A Hudson Valley woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1 million from an auto dealer where she worked in Fairfield County.
Vanessa Vence-Small, 50, of New Windsor in Orange County, pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing the money while working as a controller at Continental BMW of Darien, according to John Durham, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.
From October 2014 to June 2017, Vence-Small made 65 unauthorized electronic fund transfers, totaling $904,659.29, from the dealership’s bank account to her personal American Express account, the statement said.
During that same time period, V…
