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Wyckoff Exec Gets 12-Month Fed Sentence For Taking $350,000 In Bribes From Scrap Metal Company

A former national demolition company senior vice president from Wyckoff was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal prison and six months of home confinement for taking $341,052 in payoffs from a scrap metal company.

Cinelli Iron & Metal

Cinelli Iron & Metal

Photo Credit: Cinelli Iron & Metal

A judge in U.S. District Court in Newark also ordered that Frank Aiello, 54, pay full restitution.

Aiello worked as a senior vice president at an unnamed demolition and remediation services company with offices in New Jersey and throughout the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.

He accepted “gifts, payments and other things of value” from two brothers who co-owned Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO), headquartered in Secaucus, “in exchange for actions favorable to their business," Carpenito said.

Aiello pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark last October to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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NOTE: CIMCO Co-owner Craig Cinelli of Allendale admitted in 2017 that he participated in a separate, 17-year conspiracy to scam customers out of millions of dollars. Two other officials with the company also took plea deals from the government in the case.

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Carpenito credited special agents with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, special agents with the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General, both in New York, and the FBI’s Newark Field Office.

Handling the case for the government is Senior Litigation Counsel Daniel Shapiro of Carpenito’s Economic Crimes Unit in Newark.

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