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Feds: NJ Tax Preparer From PA Pocketed Stimulus Check Before Indictment For False Returns Feds: NJ Tax Preparer From PA Pocketed Stimulus Check Before Indictment For False Returns
Feds: NJ Tax Preparer From PA Pocketed Stimulus Check Before Indictment For False Returns A Pennsylvania man who worked as a tax preparer in Newark collected a fat stimulus check weeks before a federal grand jury indicted him for filing 44 bogus returns, authorities said. Rather than go to trial, Sylvain Dienhoue, 53, of Tobyhanna pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns during a video-conferenced hearing with a federal judge in Newark. Dienhoue, who owned and operated Cadi’s Multi Services, used “fabricated and inflated figures, including expenses and itemized deductions,” in order to generate inflat…

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Priority Males: Feds Charge North Jersey Pair With $6M Postage Scam Priority Males: Feds Charge North Jersey Pair With $6M Postage Scam
Priority Males: Feds Charge North Jersey Pair With $6M Postage Scam The owners of a North Jersey company altered hundreds of thousands of labels intended for envelopes and slapped them on large boxes, deliberately short-changing the government by more than $6 million in postage, federal authorities said following their arrests. Jack Koch, 44, of Elmwood Park, and Steven Koch, 43, of Pompton Lakes, were scheduled for video-conferenced first appearances before a federal magistrate judge Tuesday afternoon in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The elder Koch, who went by the name “Ismail Yilmaz,” and his brother, who used the alias “Selim Memis,” owned…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money
Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money An ex-con from Edgewater is headed to federal prison for 10 years for laundering more than $850,000 in drug money. Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, was living in the St. Moritz high-rise off Gorge Road when he conspired with others to launder what he thought were proceeds from drug sales, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Henderson was charged in Pennsylvania five years ago with fighting with police who took him into custody after he crashed his car in the middle of a highway and left it there. Rather than go to trial on the money laundering charge, he accepted a deal from the government, wh…

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Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud
Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud A Sussex County dentist admitted in federal court in Newark that he filed a false tax return with the IRS. Richard Golembioski, 61, of Vernon failed to report $114,566 in income from his dental practice on the 2012 return, as well as other amounts during the following four tax years, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Rather than go to trial, Golembioski took a deal from the government, pleading guilty to making and subscribing to the single false return, authorities said. U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo scheduled sentencing for March 8. Carpento credited IRS-Criminal Investigatio…

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Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen A former basketball star who led a Paterson-to-Atlantic-City drug ring that peddled heroin connected to 48 heroin overdose deaths and 84 other ODs was sentenced Monday to 135 months in federal prison. Khalif Toombs, 31, of Egg Harbor Township previously admitted directing an operation that regularly brought heroin by the kilo from Paterson into Atlantic City. FBI agents used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” …

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South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy
South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy A South Jersey man busted by the FBI admitted Monday that he made and distributed videos and other images of sex with an underage boy. Andrew Nicholas, 24, of Williamstown, was caught after he sent some of the images to an undercover federal agent in a Kik Messenger group in February 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The photos and videos depict explicit sex involving the boy and a man, with private parts exposed, that apparently were made at his home, according to an FBI complaint on file in federal court in Camden. Nicholas, who accepted a deal rather than go to trial, has and wi…

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Wayne Man Admits Assaulting Swimmer With Pellet Gun In Fierce Struggle At Delaware Water Gap Wayne Man Admits Assaulting Swimmer With Pellet Gun In Fierce Struggle At Delaware Water Gap
Wayne Man Admits Assaulting Swimmer With Pellet Gun In Fierce Struggle At Delaware Water Gap A Wayne man admitted in federal court Thursday that he pulled a gun on a couple who'd been swimming in the Delaware Water Gap and hit one of them with it before trying to tie the victim up. Jeffrey A. Mulcahy, 58, approached the couple in the Kittatinny Point area on the New Jersey side of the river on Sept. 2, 2019 and began talking to them about fishing, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. He left and then returned holding a can of beer and acting agitated, the U.S. attorney said. After the two got out of the water, Mulcahy pulled a pellet gun from his waistband, pointed it at the man an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jersey Shore Pizzeria Owner Gets 15 Months In Fed Pen For Ducking $425,000 In Taxes Jersey Shore Pizzeria Owner Gets 15 Months In Fed Pen For Ducking $425,000 In Taxes
Jersey Shore Pizzeria Owner Gets 15 Months In Fed Pen For Ducking $425,000 In Taxes The owner of a Wildwood Crest pizzeria must serve a plea-bargained 15 months in federal prison for filing false income tax returns, authorities said. Giuseppe D’Arancio, 61, of Cape May Court House must serve the entire term handed down Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Camden because there's no parole in the federal prison system. He also must spend a year of supervised release and pay $507,246 in restitution to the IRS under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez. D'Arancio and a co-owner of Sal's Pizza on New Jersey Avenue "kept two sets of acco…

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Feds Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges Feds Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges
Feds Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges A Lodi man was ordered detained by a federal judge Tuesday after agents said they found him trafficking child pornography. Joseph Ganaro, 42, used BitTorrent to collect and share child sex-abuse images, which agents accessed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They found 10 video files containing child pornography from an IP address assigned to Ganaro’s Avenue D near the state MVC office and charged him with distributing the images, the U.S. attorney said. Carpenito credited special agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations New Jersey Division a…

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Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation
Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation A Toms River man on Thursday became the second reputed associate of the DeCavalcante crime family to take a plea deal from the government in connection with a Jersey Shore drug bust. Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office discovered several ounces of coke during a warranted search of the home of Jason Vella, 39, in September 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Also arrested in the takedown was Mario Galli III, 28, also of Toms River, who was sentenced in July to more than six plea-bargained years in federal prison for a pound of cocaine and a 9mm FEG Model PGK-9HP gun lo…

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Feds: Convicted Wayne Child Porn Collector Could Get 10 Years Minimum For New Offense Feds: Convicted Wayne Child Porn Collector Could Get 10 Years Minimum For New Offense
Feds: Convicted Wayne Child Porn Collector Could Get 10 Years Minimum For New Offense A registered sex offender from Wayne who served state prison time for downloading child porn is looking at a mandatory 10 years in a federal penitentiary for doing it again, authorities said. Robert Klemt, 34, had more than 70 photos and videos “depicting the sexual exploitation of children”on a laptop, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. Klemt, of New Street, was imprisoned after pleading guilty in Superior Court in Essex County in 2014 to possessing and distributing child pornography. Records show he was released the following March and classified under Megan’s Law in Tier 2 at…

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Brick City Backhander: Feds Charge Newark Councilman With Taking Payoffs For Influence Brick City Backhander: Feds Charge Newark Councilman With Taking Payoffs For Influence
Brick City Backhander: Feds Charge Newark Councilman With Taking Payoffs For Influence Federal agents caught a sitting Newark City Council member pocketing payoffs in exchange for influence, authorities said Tuesday. West Ward Councilman Joseph A. McCallum Jr., 65, was charged with soliciting and collecting bribes and kickbacks at the same time that a consultant from the city, 60-year-old Malik Frederick, was pleading guilty to his role in the scheme, they said. McCallum “schemed to receive concealed bribes and kickbacks from Frederick, funded by developers, contracting companies, and other businesses seeking contracts and approvals principally related to development, constru…

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