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$31M Trip-Fall Fraud Scheme: Miller Place Doctor, Nassau County Attorneys Sentenced $31M Trip-Fall Fraud Scheme: Miller Place Doctor, Nassau County Attorneys Sentenced
$31M Trip-Fall Fraud Scheme: Miller Place Doctor, Nassau County Attorneys Sentenced Sentences have been handed out for two attorneys and a doctor convicted of defrauding New York businesses and their insurance companies of more than $31 million through a massive, three-year trip-and-fall fraud scheme. The three men all live on Long Island -- 60-year-old George Constantine in Plainview, 50-year-old Marc Elefant in Woodmere, and 67-year-old Andrew Dowd in Miller Place. Constantine and Dowd were convicted at a trial in mid-December 2022 of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Dowd was also found guilty of additional counts of conspiracy to co…

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Suffolk Attorney Sentenced For Stealing Wrongful Death Inheritance Suffolk Attorney Sentenced For Stealing Wrongful Death Inheritance
Suffolk Attorney Sentenced For Stealing Wrongful Death Inheritance A longtime attorney from Long Island will spend years in prison after admitting to stealing more than a million dollars from a child’s inheritance, federal officials announced. Smithtown resident Vincent Trimarco, Jr., age 52, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in a scheme to defraud a minor of her inheritance from a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Additionally, US Breon Peace said that Trimarco has been ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution and to forfeit an additional $1.5 million after he pleaded guilty in October 2020. Between Ap…

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by Zak Failla