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Ex-Owner Of NY Commercial Check Cashing Companies Sentenced For $9.5M Fraud Scheme Ex-Owner Of NY Commercial Check Cashing Companies Sentenced For $9.5M Fraud Scheme
Ex-Owner Of NY Commercial Check Cashing Companies Sentenced For $9.5M Fraud Scheme The former owner of several check cashing businesses in New York is heading to federal prison after admitting to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. Long Island resident John Drago, age 58, of Central Islip, was sentenced to four years behind bars Friday, Oct. 21, in federal court in Central Islip. It followed his September 2021 guilty plea to fraud charges, in which he admitted to illegally structuring financial transactions and evading payroll taxes at several of his Long Island businesses. Federal prosecutors said between January 2010 and October 2013, Drago told employees to cash multi…

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Woman Who Operates Area Supermarket Admits To Failure To Pay Taxes Woman Who Operates Area Supermarket Admits To Failure To Pay Taxes
Woman Who Operates Area Supermarket Admits To Failure To Pay Taxes The owner of a grocery store in the region admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government through a federal tax fraud scheme. Fairfield County resident Lizbel Sanchez, also known as Lizbel Diaz, age 47, of Brookfield, the co-owner of a C-Town location in Danbury, pleaded guilty to a federal tax offense. US Attorney Leonard Boyle said that Sanchez, a minority owner of Danbury Food Corp., which operates a C-Town grocery store in the city, was responsible for the company’s accounting and financial records, as well as collecting and paying federal taxes from some empl…

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by Zak Failla