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Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay
Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay A tech consultant used a Hackensack company's money to buy $200,000 worth of cellphones that he then sold on eBay, authorities charged. Michael Acosta, 34, of North Bergen used his position in the company to buy more than 400 phones without authorization from its service provider between October 2015 and September 2018, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. He “later sold them on eBay for his own personal gain,” Calo said. Acosta was issued a summons and released pending a Feb. 20 first appearance in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: Manager From South Hackensack Embezzled $150,000 From Fair Lawn Pediatric Office Prosecutor: Manager From South Hackensack Embezzled $150,000 From Fair Lawn Pediatric Office
Prosecutor: Manager From South Hackensack Embezzled $150,000 From Fair Lawn Pediatric Office The former office manager for a Fair Lawn pediatric practice swiped $150,000 from his employer’s bank and Amazon accounts to pay his own bills and buy himself things, authorities said. Nicholas Caruso, 49, of South Hackensack, "gained access to his employer’s business checking account and used online banking and bill pay services to pay his own personal expenses,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. “Those expenses included credit card and vehicle finance charges. “Caruso also established an Amazon account in his employer’s name, which was attached to the business checkin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: Bank Worker, BF Took $375G From Late Teaneck Resident's Estate Prosecutor: Bank Worker, BF Took $375G From Late Teaneck Resident's Estate
Prosecutor: Bank Worker, BF Took $375G From Late Teaneck Resident's Estate A bank employee and her boyfriend stole $375,000 from the estate of a recently deceased Teaneck resident, said authorities who busted them. Shannell Griggs of Syracuse, NY, “used the bank’s computerized account and customer service systems to access and take over the victim’s bank accounts,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. She and Givonni Butler of Passaic then stole the deceased’s money “through a combination of illicit debit card purchases, cash withdrawals, wire transfers, and cashier check purchases,” Calo said. The executor alerted members of the prosecutor’s …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools
Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools The now-former business manager for three parochial schools in Bergen County stole more than $200,000 that she used to make more than 1,500 purchases on personal credit cards that she opened in other people’s names through a "large-scale, complex theft scheme," authorities charged. Mary M. Ayoub, 52, of New Milford “compromised the accounting records of one of the schools by making false vendor payment entries into the financial ledger system,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. The Alpine native and former Price Waterhouse audit manager then “used the false…

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by Jerry DeMarco