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Dumont Tax Preparer Fleeced Family Of $200,000, Authorities Charge
DUMONT, N.J. – A tax preparer from Dumont swindled a family out of $200,000, said authorities who arrested him Tuesday.
Stephen Adler, 75, “misappropriated the victims’ money for his own personal use," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.
Calo said members of his Financial Crimes Unit last June “received a complaint from a family who had lost approximately $200,000 in what they believed to be an investment scheme operated by their tax preparer.”
Between 2014 and 2015, he said, Adler “persuaded them to invest in what he described as a secure investment vehicle [that] would…
