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North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen
North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen The leader of a North Jersey multi-moving company scam was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for jacking up the final bills on estimates he’d given customers by as much as 400%. Richard Bishara, 43, a former Paramus moving company operator now living in Woodland Park, will have to serve the entire term handed down Thursday by a U.S. District Court judge in Newark: There’s no parole in the federal prison system. Bishara owned and jointly operated several companies that low-balled estimates on moving household goods before raising the price dramatically once the items were on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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U.S. Attorney: Elmwood Park Bait-And-Switch Movers Held Customers' Goods Hostage U.S. Attorney: Elmwood Park Bait-And-Switch Movers Held Customers' Goods Hostage
U.S. Attorney: Elmwood Park Bait-And-Switch Movers Held Customers' Goods Hostage The owners of an Elmwood Park moving company pulled bait-and-switches on helpless customers -- holding their valuables hostage -- before federal agents busted them, authorities said. For three years, Lola Larios 36, of Haledon, and Lior Atiyas, 42, of Long Island, took advantage of customers who “were in a vulnerable state and unable to refuse their demands,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Larios and Atiyas – using the names “Michelle Jacobs” and “David Cohen” – gave customers low-ball quotes, then jacked up the prices two to three times after the valuables were loaded onto their Premi…

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by Jerry DeMarco