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Hudson Valley Man Admits To Posing As Investor, Scamming More Than $190K Hudson Valley Man Admits To Posing As Investor, Scamming More Than $190K
Hudson Valley Man Admits To Posing As Investor, Scamming More Than $190K A 47-year-old Westchester man who fled to Spain to avoid prosecution has admitted to swindling a trio of Westchester victims out of their life savings. Yonkers resident John Nemec pleaded guilty on Thursday to three counts of grand larceny for “conspiring and engaging in a fraudulent investment scheme to steal more than $190,000 from his victims.” According to the indictment, Nemec schemed to gain his victims’ trust and proceeded to steal money from them by claiming that he had left “a short-lived employment as a police officer years ago to become a financial success in both the film indust…