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Stamford accountant pleads guilty to $2M Westchester fraud
Stamford accountant Steven L. Henning has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges for defrauding investors in a Westchester firm of $2 million. Henning He stipulated to a sentencing guideline of...
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Norwalk financial planner subject of securities arbitration filing
The New York City law firm Fitapelli Kurta said that is has filed securities arbitrations related to the alleged theft of funds by Norwalk financial adviser James Booth, who was affiliated with LPL...
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Mount Vernon mayor pleads guilty to taking campaign funds; will resign from...
Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas. Photo by Bill Heltzel Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas will resign and leave office effective Sept. 30 as a consequence of his guilty plea in state court in White...
View ArticleAccused embezzler Rocco Romeo ordered to pay former employer $1.1M
Accused embezzler Rocco Romeo has been ordered to pay nearly $1.1 million to his former employer. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel issued a default judgment July 16 after Romeo, of Washingtonville,...
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La Crémaillère owner, on verge of selling famed French restaurant, arrested
La Crémaillère restaurant. Image via Google Maps La Crémaillère, the famed French restaurant in Bedford, was on the verge of selling the business for $2.5 million when a bankruptcy judge approved a...
View ArticleTarrytown postal employee accused of stealing mail
A U.S. Postal Service employee has been arrested and accused of stealing mail at the Tarrytown Post Office. Juwan Caesar has been a postal employee since 2016, picking up mail from collection boxes in...
View ArticleCT businesses targeted in ‘certificate of existence’ scam
Connecticut business owners are being targeted in a new scam by a private company attempting to collect money for an unnecessary business operations document. According to a joint statement issued by...
View ArticleFairfield Public Works official placed on leave as police investigation...
Fairfield Superintendent of Public Works Scott Bartlett has been placed on administrative leave as a police investigation involving illegal dumping and bribery continues. It is the latest development...
View ArticleFeds charge Exclusive Motor Sports owners with concealing millions of dollars
Exclusive Motor Sports in Central Valley made money, but the father and son who ran the Orange County used car dealership allegedly concealed millions of dollars in revenue and lied to lenders about...
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Medicaid fraud probes net Greenwich cop, Bridgeport business owner
Story Copyright Westfair Communications Two separate high-profile cases of Medicaid fraud have resulted in charges against a Greenwich police officer and a prison sentence for the former co-owner of a...
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AMA Labs owner, Gabriel Letizia, accused of rigging sunscreen tests
Story copyright by Westfair Communications Gabriel Letizia Jr., owner and executive director of AMA Laboratories Inc. in New City, was arrested Friday on charges of rigging tests for 30 years on...
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Bridgeport tax preparer sentenced to prison for $1.5M in false returns
Rolando Russell, an independent Bridgeport tax preparer, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for preparing false tax returns for clients...
View ArticleFive charged in $500K merchandise thefts from Westchester retailers
Westchester County Police arrested five people Aug. 14 and charged them with stealing more than $500,000 worth of merchandise from TJ Maxx and other retailers in the past five months through the use of...
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Convicted College of New Rochelle controller Keith Borge blames other...
Former College of New Rochelle controller Keith Borge – who failed to pay $20.4 million in payroll taxes, caused losses of $612,398 in a securities fraud and filed financial statements that inflated...
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Bridgeport immigration consultant pleads guilty in marriage fraud scheme
Jodian Stephenson, the owner of the now-defunct consultancy Immigration and Legal Services LLC in Bridgeport, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to her activity in arranging fraudulent...
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New NY law to protect domestic violence victims from employment discrimination
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation that changes Section 292 of New York state’s Executive Law to specify that the Human Rights Law protects anyone who is a victim of domestic violence from...
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Prosecutors place blame for College of New Rochelle demise on convicted...
Federal prosecutors contend that convicted controller Keith Borge could have prevented the closure of The College of New Rochelle and that he should be imprisoned. Borge is scheduled for sentencing on...
View ArticleCNR controller Keith Borge sentenced to 3 years in prison
Keith Borge, the former controller of the former College of New Rochelle was sentenced Aug. 28 to three years in prison for failing to pay $20.4 million in payroll taxes and filing fictitious financial...
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Lawrence Weissmann suspended from practicing law for fixing tickets
New City attorney Lawrence A. Weissmann has been suspended from practicing law for two years for fixing parking tickets. Weissmann argued to the New York Second Appellate Division that his crime was...
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Fordham to host discussion on anti-Semitism and sports
“Businesspeople can make a difference,” Anthony Davidson, dean of the Fordham University School of Professional and Continuing Studies, said when discussing why he believes an upcoming symposium on...
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