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NY Entrepreneur Admits To Defrauding Investors Of Nearly $1M NY Entrepreneur Admits To Defrauding Investors Of Nearly $1M
NY Entrepreneur Admits To Defrauding Investors Of Nearly $1M An entrepreneur from the area has admitted to defrauding investors of nearly $1 million. Joseph Cimino, the founder of a tequila brand based in the Hudson Valley, pleaded guilty on Monday, Nov. 15 to securities and wire fraud charges. As part of the plea, the 57-year-old Cimino, a resident of Warwick in Orange County, admitted fraudulently soliciting investments for his company. “As he admitted in court today, Joseph Cimino lied about his tequila business’s finances to lure investors and then diverted investor funds in order to line his own pockets," Damian Williams, the US Attor…