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$2M Scheme: Westchester Accounting Firm Partners Admit To Tax Fraud Conspiracy
Two New York accounting firm partners have pleaded guilty to a multi-million dollar tax evasion scheme. Click here for a new, updated story - Update: Scarsdale-Based Accountant Nabbed In Tax Fraud Scheme Was Longtime Firefighter Westchester County resident George Sanossian, age 70, of Scarsdale, and New Jersey resident Jack Sardis, age 66, of Englewood Cliffs, both certified public accountants, admitted to conspiracy to defraud the IRS by scheming with clients to reduce tax liabilities through a shell company, leading to over $2 million in unreported cash transactions. The tw…
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NY Men 'Poisoned' Prominent Transgender Activist, 'Pose' Star Who OD'd: Feds
Two New York men are facing federal charges in the death of a prominent transgender activist, performer, and author. Long Island resident Antonio Venti, age 52, of West Babylon and Michael Kuilan, age 44, of Brooklyn, were arraigned on a four-count indictment in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, April 1. Prosecutors said Venti and Kuilan sold heroin laced with fentanyl to Cecilia Gentili. NYPD officers responded to the 52-year-old’s Brooklyn home on Feb. 6 following a 911 call from her partner. Gentili was found dead in her bedroom. An autopsy determined that she died from the combined eff…
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NY Man Sentenced For 'Terrorizing Young Women, Coercing Them Into Commercial Sex Acts'
A New York man will spend decades behind bars for forcing women to engage in prostitution. Long Island resident Justin Rivera, age 32, of Amityville, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison Tuesday, Oct. 11, in US District Court in Manhattan. The sentence followed an eight-day jury trial in June 2021 in which he was convicted of conspiring to sex traffic two victims. Federal prosecutors said Rivera - also known as Denzel Rivera, Bangout, and Jackie Chan - conspired with others to coerce the young women to engage in commercial sex acts at an abandoned house in Bohemia in 2015. They di…
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Former Owner Of Upscale Westchester Restaurant Admits To Fraud Charge
The former owner and operator of an upscale Northern Westchester restaurant admitted to wire fraud in connection with her multi-year scheme to defraud the restaurant’s lenders, mortgagee, bankruptcy creditors, and customers, authorities announced. Fairfield County resident Barbara Meyzen, also known as “Bobbie," 57, of Redding, owned and operated the La Crémaillère Restaurant in the North Castle hamlet of Banksville starting in 1993. She pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Thursday, March 5 in White Plains federal court. La Crémaillère Restaurant inform…
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Ex-Rockland Bus Company Magnate Sentenced For Bribery, Theft, Fraud
The former owner of a local bus repair and transportation company has been sentenced to time in prison for fraud, bribery and theft. Richard Brega, who owned Brega D.O.T. Maintenance Corp. in Rockland County, has been sentenced to 50 months in prison after he was found guilty by a federal jury in White Plains, following a three-week trial. The convictions were for Brega’s billing the Rockland Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) for maintenance of school buses that were never performed, and bribery of a Rockland BOCES official. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said that Brega, 51…
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U.S. Attorney: Accomplice Of Stony Point Heroin Dealer Indicted
STONY POINT, N.Y. -- Federal grand jurors indicted an accused accomplice of an admitted Stony Point heroin dealer in connection with an organized ring that distributed pounds of the drug in Rockland, Bergen and Passaic counties. Reinaldo “Money” Rodriguez, 29, was part of a network that that stretched from the Bronx to Paterson and into suburban towns in three counties, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. The ring included included Joseph Trimarco, 30, of Stony Point, NY, who worked out a deal with federal prosecutors in exchange for a guilty plea. Trimarco is awaiting senten…