Find Your Daily Voice
69°
Passaic County Executor Charged With Pocketing $75,000
An estate executor from Passaic County diverted $75,000 for her own entertainment, to pay credit card bills and for other personal purposes, authorities charged.
Nancy Williams, 64, “was responsible for distributing the assets of the estate to the beneficiary,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said.
“Instead, Williams illegally took the assets of the estate and converted the assets to her own use” for two years, beginning in August 2016, Valdes said.
Members of her Financial Crimes Unit charged Williams with theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, misapplication of entrust…
NJ Transit Conductors, Wife Arrested In Telemedicine Fraud Scheme
Two NJ Transit conductors were among three people arrested in a fraud scheme in which they recruited employees to get doctors to write various prescriptions, costing the insurance company more than $800,000, authorities said.
David A. Rasmussen, 55, Raymond Giovanne, 33, and Suzanne Rasmussen, 52 -- David's wife -- participated in a scheme to defraud NJ State Blue Cross/Blue Shield, which provides health insurance coverage to state employees, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office announced July 29.
David Rasmussen is the delegate recommended by the union to serve as a member of the NJ T…
Former Bergen Resident From CT Admits Embezzling $540,000 From Security Firm
A former Bergen County resident now living in Connecticut admitted Wednesday that she embezzled $540,000 from a local company.
Melissa Corso, 50, and her husband lived in Closter when she worked for a Delaware-based security systems supplier with an office in Ridgefield Park, federal authorities said.
Corso, currently of Groton, CT, and co-worker Joseph Spaccavento steered customer payments owed to their former employer to a PayPal account registered to him and linked to her work email, according to an FBI complaint.
The customers, in turn, sent more than $3.1 million through 1,150 transa…
Prosecutor: Newark Man Used Bogus UK License, Passport To Wire Himself $135K At Summit Bank
A Newark man was charged with fraud after stealing $135,000 in the form of two cashier's checks from a Summit bank, authorities said Tuesday.
Summit police opened an investigation at the Chase Bank on Summit Avenue after a man later identified as 25-year-old Warris Adenuga fraudulently wired $150,000 to a business under his control from a bank in Florida, Union County Assistant Prosecutor Melissa Spagnoli said.
During a pair of transactions at the Summit bank the next day, Adenuga received cashier’s checks in the amount of $100,000 and $20,000, along with $15,000 in cash, said Spagnoli…