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Jack Griffin Took $380K From NJ Autism School For Unbuilt Farm, Then Sent Cash To Wife: Feds Jack Griffin Took $380K From NJ Autism School For Unbuilt Farm, Then Sent Cash To Wife: Feds
Jack Griffin Took $380K From NJ Autism School For Unbuilt Farm, Then Sent Cash To Wife: Feds Jack Griffin told the world he was building the future of farming. He gave a TEDx Talk. He stood before Congress. He promised to wipe out food deserts with high-tech vertical farms that could grow strawberries on a second floor and turn kale into jet fuel. But federal investigators say Griffin was really just pocketing. And now he’s headed to prison, the FBI announced on Monday, Feb. 2. The Sentence Jack Frances “Jack” Griffin, 62, of Philadelphia, faced up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud charge and five years for tax evasion. His sentencing was originally scheduled for Oct. 22,…

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PA Bookkeeper Stole $822K From Law Firm In NJ In 6-Year Remote Embezzlement PA Bookkeeper Stole $822K From Law Firm In NJ In 6-Year Remote Embezzlement
PA Bookkeeper Stole $822K From Law Firm In NJ In 6-Year Remote Embezzlement She worked remotely from Pennsylvania — and secretly funneled hundreds of thousands from her New Jersey law firm. Now, the 66-year-old bookkeeper is going to jail for a years-long financial betrayal. A former bookkeeper who siphoned more than $800,000 from a Bucks County-based law firm with operations in New Jersey has been sentenced to county jail, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday, June 27. Reese Esther Paul, 66, of Holland in Northampton Township, was handed a sentence of one year less a day to two years less a day in the Bucks County Correctional Facility, …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Disbarred NJ Attorney Accused Of Stealing $130K From Dead Client’s Estate: Prosecutor Disbarred NJ Attorney Accused Of Stealing $130K From Dead Client’s Estate: Prosecutor
Disbarred NJ Attorney Accused Of Stealing $130K From Dead Client’s Estate: Prosecutor A former Monmouth County attorney has been criminally charged with stealing more than $130,000 from a deceased client’s estate over the course of seven years, authorities said. Kathleen M. Cehelsky, 60, of Spring Lake Heights, is charged with: Second-degree Misapplication of Entrusted Property Fourth-degree False Uttering Fourth-degree Forgery The charges were announced Thursday, May 16, by Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago. According to Santiago, the theft began shortly after the death of Cehelsky’s client in 2014, when she began illegally transferring funds from the client’…

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by Cecilia Levine