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Bergen Broker Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For 'Short Sale' Scam Bergen Broker Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For 'Short Sale' Scam
Bergen Broker Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For 'Short Sale' Scam A Bergen County real estate broker was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison for his role in a $4.6 million “short-sale” scheme. Steve Young Kang, 66, of Ridgefield, and others sold properties to an accomplice, Mehdi Kassai, for substantially less than they were worth, Acting Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney and Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Rahul Agarwal said. The conspirators used false documents, straw buyers and cosmetic property damage, while also restricting the ability of others to bid on and buy those properties, Agarwal said. Kassai then “sold many of those propert…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge
Cover-up: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge Three Essex County correctional officers beat a federal detainee as a sergeant stood by, said authorities who charged all four with civil rights violations. The detainee – who was being held pending a federal trial -- squirted a mixture of urine, yogurt, and milk onto a correctional officer at the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) the evening of Aug. 17, 2020, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Friday. The detainee was brought to a disciplinary cell and beaten by Officers Angel Chaparro, 38, Damion James, 40, and Luis Ortiz, 29, in front of Sgt. Herman Pride, 51, Honig said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud
Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud A long-time Brazilian fugitive flew returned to New Jersey on Tuesday to face federal charges in a long-running mortgage fraud, authorities said. Isaac DePaula, 40, of Brazil, had been on the run since federal authorities first charged him in a 2012 complaint and then a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark indicted him four years later. He flew in to Newark Airport on Tuesday to face the indictment, which charges him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A federal judge ordered DePaula’s release pending further court…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FBI Busts Paterson Police Sergeant Charged With Stealing Cash During Search FBI Busts Paterson Police Sergeant Charged With Stealing Cash During Search
FBI Busts Paterson Police Sergeant Charged With Stealing Cash During Search The FBI Tuesday morning arrested a Paterson police sergeant accused of stealing money during a search of a suspect’s apartment. Sgt. Michael Cheff, 49, of Paterson, gave a few of his fellow officers a portion of the proceeds and didn’t report it, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Federal authorities have been busting a band of rogue officers who they said violated civilians’ civil rights by stopping and searching their vehicles without justification and stole money from civilians. Cheff “routinely received a portion of these stolen monies from some of these officers and signed off on cor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault
Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault A former Paterson police officer must serve six months in federal prison for concealing the assault of a hospitalized suicidal man by his partner, which he recorded with his cellphone. Roger Then, 29, of Paterson, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Newark after pleading guilty last December to misprison of felony for concealing the civil rights crime committed by his partner, Ruben McAusland, at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. McAusland was sentenced last week to 5½ years for the assault. ****** SEE: A former Paterson police officer will spend 5½ years in federal pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians
Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians The FBI on Tuesday arrested a fourth Paterson police officer on charges of targeting pedestrians and motorists for stops just to steal their money. Federal authorities charged 32-year-old Daniel Pent of Paterson with conspiring to deprive the victims of their civil rights “under color of law.” Pent was part of a group of rogue city officers who “stopped and searched motor vehicles without any justification and stole cash and other items from the occupants,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They also “illegally stopped and searched individuals in buildings or on the streets of Paterson a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds
Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds A group of rogue Paterson police officers who targeted pedestrians and motorists for stops just to steal their money exchanged texts about it, authorities revealed Wednesday. The evidence, obtained by the FBI, is described in a nine-count federal grand jury indictment charging Officer Eudy Ramos, 28, of Paterson, with violating and conspiring to violate the victims’ civil rights, as well as with filing false reports to cover up his crimes. Ramos was one of three city officers originally identified as being arrested and charged by the FBI last April. He “targeted, stopped and searched” spec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet
Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet A Paterson woman admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that she sold thousands of heroin-packed pills that her boyfriend made to look like Percocet. Karen Rojas, 28, told a U.S. District Court judge that she and Juan Vidal distributed thousands of pills for $5 each that he’d made at their home using a press between this past February and April. A buyer who cooperated with the government secretly recorded Rojas providing 40 pills for $200, after which she said that Vidal needed to “get supplies” in order to fulfill the buyer’s request for 100 to 150 of them, U.S. Attorney Craig Ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone
Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone Federal agents arrested a Paterson police officer early Wednesday on charges of assaulting a suicidal hospital patient with another officer and recording it on his cellphone. Surveillance video shows Roger Then, 29, of Paterson pushing the victim to the ground after a fellow city officer punched him in the face while he was sitting in a wheelchair in a hallway at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center on March 5, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Moments earlier, the victim apparently threw some type of object down the hall, he said. A second video, shot by Then, shows the victim on his ba…

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by Jerry DeMarco