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ICE, Nypd: 'Money-Sucking' Crew With Bergen, Hudson Members Scammed Elderly 2X
Ten people -- six of them from Bergen and Hudson counties -- were charged by federal authorities with convincing unwitting elderly victims to invest their money in various businesses, pushing them into debt, and then scamming them again with a bogus debt-relief program.
Those charged include two Hillsdale residents, identified as Joseph Ciaccio and Joseph Depaola, both 30; two Elmwood Park residents, identified as Derrek Larkin, 36, and Mattie Cirilo, 28; and one from Washington Township, Joseph Minetto, 32.
Also charged were Anthony Cheedie, 34, of Jersey City, two people from Arizona, ano…
$40,000 Bergen Jewel Thief Who Also Killed 2 Rivals Gets 40 Years
The theft of $40,000 of jewelry from a Bergen County store was directed by a Westchester gang leader who was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in federal prison for killing two rivals just months earlier, authorities said.
Jamel "Flynt" Upson, 33, ran the Mount Vernon-based "Boss Playa Family" -- or "BPF" -- which waged open warfare on its rivals, authorities said.
Upson, in particular, displayed "disturbing indifference to the lives of others," including two rivals he shot down in cold blood, said Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern …
