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$600,000 Stolen: Long Island Yacht Club Bookkeeper Sentenced, DA Says
Over the course of seven years, the woman siphoned club funds into her personal accounts and falsified business records, authorities report.
Anna Maria Restrepo, a 59-year-old Glen Head resident, was sentenced on Thursday, April 27 to three to six years in prison on grand larceny charges, the Nassau County District Attorney announced.
Restrepo (who is also known as Anna Maria Saboski), had been stealing hundreds of thousands from the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club for nearly her whole employment with the club.
According to the District Attorney, Restrepo was hired as a bookkeeper and …
Greedy PA Workers Paid Off Student Loans, Took Trips To Jersey Shore On Doctor's Dime: DA
Trips to the Jersey Shore, student loan payments and gifts to their boyfriends.
Two employers of a West Chester doctor sneakily stole $450,000 of his money to do just that and more, but not before trying to sell one of the doctor's $1 million properties without his permission, according to authorities in Chester County.
Mikayla Zeigler, 22, of West Chester, and Danielle King, 25, of Chadds Ford, "engaged in a cunning scheme to steal from their boss and spent it lavishly on themselves," District Attorney Deb Ryan said.
"They used the money to pay their rent, student loans, and credit card d…
Montco School Admin Embezzled $579K, Opened Cards In Employees' Names: DA
A private school administrator in Montgomery County is accused of embezzling more than half a million dollars, opening credit accounts in her employees' names, and using the money to live a lavish lifestyle, authorities say.
Katherine Paprocka, 36, of Paoli, was arraigned on dozens of felony charges Tuesday, Dec. 13 related to her work as senior administrator at the Penn Christian Academy in East Norriton, a private non-profit educational institution, said county District Attorney Kevin R. Steele in a statement.
Investigators first began examining the school's finances after a private in…
Police: Trio Used Stolen $1M To Renovate North Jersey Deli During Pandemic, Buy Engagement Ring
Two women and one man stole more than $1 million from a North Jersey business and blew it on memorabilia from some of most famous athletes in the sports the world, an engagement ring, exercise bike and renovations to their local deli, authorities said.
Regina DeComa, 36, of Cedar Grove; Dawn Becker, 55, of Oakland; and Allan Soriano, 42, of Cedar Grove were arrested on various fraud charges, Fairfield Police Chief Anthony Manna said.
DeComa was an office manager and Becker the financial comptroller of a Fairfield business made "unauthorized distributions of corporate funds" to themselves b…
Illegal After-Hours Clubs Grow Amid COVID Restrictions, NJ Police Say
Just like the speakeasys of the Prohibition-era 1920s, illegal nightclubs stocked with booze, music and more are sprouting up amid COVID restrictions in New Jersey, including two that Paterson police raided this past week.
Those followed one less than a week earlier in Englewood.
“You may think this game of cat-and-mouse ... is kind of cute, but let’s be honest, it can be deadly,” Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.
“And, by the way, when you act like a knucklehead, you show your true self. You show you don’t care about your community. You show you don’t care about your customers or your e…
DA: Ardmore Bookkeeper Spent $394K In Company Money On Plastic Surgery, NFL Tickets
An Ardmore bookkeeper is accused of using her employer's credit cards to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in unauthorized purchases for plastic surgery, NFL tickets, airline tickets and more, authorities said.
Tiarah Brokenborough, 29, was charged with stealing more than $394,000 from Hynes Roofing and Siding, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Lower Merion Township Police Superintendent Michael J. McGrath said.
John and Michelle Hynes, owners of Hynes Roofing and Siding, contacted the Lower Merion Police on March 14, to report that they had learned of a …
CT Woman Who Claimed $50K In Charges On AmEx Were Not Hers, Charged With Fraud, Police Say
An area woman was arrested for allegedly charging more than $55,000 on her American Express card and then illegally reporting that it had been used without her permission.
Susan Tedesco, 58, of Orange, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 6, on a larceny charge, said the Milford Police.
According to police, Tedesco was arrested on an active warrant for making the charges from July 2016 through Dec. 2018 and then making a fraud complaint that was found not to be true.
Tedesco was held on a $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 2.
Sandra Papone, Longtime Resident Of Greenwich, Chaired Alzheimers Gala, Dies
A Greenwich resident of 50 years, Sandra Papone, who was chair of Alzheimer's Society galas, died Saturday, Aug. 24 of heart failure. She was 87.
She was born on July 6, 1932, in New York City.
Papone is survived by her husband Aldo Papone, her daughter, Renata Papone-Lally, and her son-in-law Christopher Lally.
Her "greatest joy" were her grandchildren, Gregory and Alexandra. "Sandra would light up the minute they walked into the room," said the obituary.
Working in Manhattan at a small Italian clothing boutique called Barra of Italy on Park Avenue in the early '50s, she met …
Bookkeeper From Mahwah Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Ramsey Company
A bookkeeper from Mahwah embezzled nearly $100,000 over five years from a Ramsey door manufacturer, basically covering her personal expenses with the money, authorities charged.
Denise J. Mann, 42, was busted in a “long and complicated” case that took nearly a year to assemble, Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney said Friday.
Working for North Jersey Door Center on Swan Street, Mann “used various business bank accounts in order to make personal payments and purchases” of $94,289.73, Gurney said.
Among the methods, the chief said, Mann:
forged business checks to herself;
paid her Sprint, Ver…
