Ethan Ellner, 54, Plainview, New York, pleaded guilty to three counts of Grand Larceny 2nd degree, one count of Conspiracy 4th degree and one count of Scheme to Defraud 1st degree on charges stemming from the indictment wherein Ellner, George Guldi, a former Suffolk County Legislator and others were charged with grand larceny,
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Kevin M. O’Connell, 35, Albany, New York pled guilty to a one-count information charging him with the felony offense of laundering of monetary instruments in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(1)(A)(i), in connection with his role in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions and other mortgage lenders of over $5.3 million in loans.
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Kosta Kovachev, 58, formerly a registered broker with the National Association of Securities Dealers, pleaded guilty this morning to one count of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud and one count of wire fraud stemming from his participation with Marc Dreier in the sale of over $100 million dollars in fictitious promissory notes to various hedge funds, as part of a larger
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Brian H. Madden, 55, Greenlawn, New York, was indicted on charges that he misappropriated and embezzled over $4.7 million of escrow, client, and other operating funds from three title insurance agencies that he controlled and operated in New York. The three-count Indictment returned by the Grand Jury adds a money laundering charge to the wire fraud and insurance fraud charges for which Continue Reading...
Shawn Corcas, 39, St. Albans, New York, pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a 68-year-old Jamaica, Queens, man who had been disabled as a result of a stroke and then secretly selling his house out from under him and pocketing the profits.
The defendant pleaded guilty before Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grosso to one count of second-degree grand larceny and one-count of first-degree falsifying business records. He
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Marc A. Bernstein, 54, New York, New York, a lawyer, was indicted and charged with stealing settlement and escrow monies from his clients. This second indictment charges the defendant with stealing more than $1.5 million from five clients. This follows a previous indictment that was unsealed on May 19, 2009 charging the defendant with stealing $652,600 from 11 medical malpractice and personal injury clients. The total amount the
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Jonathan Boxman, 46, an owner and operator of real estate title insurance companies, was charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with defrauding clients of title companies he controlled of more than $1.7 million. According to the criminal complaint, Boxman stole money that was entrusted to those companies and used it to pay operating expenses associated with his failing
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Craig Heller, 49, has been charged with for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He was due back in court June 25, 2009.
Heller, acting as escrow agent, was hired in November 2007 to remit a settlement check for more than $82,000 to the partial owner of a
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Mayer Goldberger, 50, Brooklyn, New York, has been charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He was arrested by DA Investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court, Hempstead.
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Anita Bareja, 35, Dix Hills, New York, has been charged with two counts of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, three counts of Falsification of Business Records in the first Degree, one count of Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree, and four counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Third Degree. She was arraigned in First District Court, Hempstead, where a Nassau County judge ordered she be held on $20,000
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