Spiros Moshopoulos, Tommy Skiada, and Daniella Radulescu, New York City residents, were charged with a total of 714 counts of fraud; each of the defendants were variously charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, money laundering, promoting gambling, tampering with a witness, conspiracy and scheme to defraud. It was alleged that the three defendants operated a bingo hall in Queens, New York and illegally siphoned funds from charity organizations.
The bingo hall allegedly used various inactive charities under the name of Romanian Orthodox Church of Sts. Constantine & Helen to generate funding and charities by conducting various bingo games. But under Moshopoulos’, Skiada’s and Radulescu’s conspiracy, the funding generated through the bingo games were purportedly used to enrich their own pockets. An approximate total of $830,000 charitable funding was allegedly stolen by the three defendants.
If convicted, each of the three defendants faces more 10 years in prison.