Home Security Company Settles With New York State Attorney General’s Office After Being Alleged Of Unlawful Sales Tactics

August 16, 2010

Pinnacle Security Group, LLC, a Utah-based home security and home monitoring company, settled their pending suit with the New York State Attorney General’s office after alleging them of violating Article 22-A of the new York State General Business Law and New York State Executive Law § 63(l2), alleging Pinnacle of unlawful sales tactics and failing [...]

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Founder Of The Non-For-Profit Queens International Film Festival Arrested For Grand Larceny

August 13, 2010

Marie Castaldo, the founder and executive director of the Queens International Film Festival of New York City, was arrested and charged with scheme to defraud, grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and harassment, for defrauding four vendors of approximately $14,000 worth of goods and services.
During the 2007 and 2008, Queens International Film [...]

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11 Defendants Charged For Extensive Day Care Subsidy Fraud In New York City

August 12, 2010

Eleven defendants; four of which are day care owners throughout New York City and seven New York City officials of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) were arrested and federally charged for operating a massive day care and bribery fraud scheme which allegedly conned the HRA of more than $18 million.
The investigation identifies [...]

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Self-Proclaimed New York State Licensed Immigration Lawyer And UN Employee Charged With Multiple Counts Of Fraud

August 10, 2010

Marc Payen, a self-proclaimed New York State licensed immigration lawyer and immigration service provider for the United Nations, was arrested and charged with 23 counts of Grand Larceny, Forgery, Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument, Scheme to Defraud and the Unauthorized Practice of Law. It was alleged that Payan took advantage of 6 Haitian immigrants [...]

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Spousal Argument Turns Into 2nd And 3rd Assault On The Grand Central Parkway

August 10, 2010

Ameer Khairullah, a New York City resident was charged with 2nd and 3rd degree assault and felony leaving the scene without reporting for allegedly assaulting his wife, Bebe Khairullah while she is driving.
According to the investigation, the victim Bebe Khairullah was driving her husband Ameer Khairullah westbound on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New [...]

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Health Care Credit Card Industry Under Investigation For Allegedly Defrauding Consumers

August 6, 2010

GE Money’s CareCredit, a health care credit card and several New York health care providers in connection with CareCredit, are currently being investigated for allegedly defrauding patients with high interest rates, while giving/receiving kickbacks for signing patients up.
Hundreds of consumer complaints submitted to the Attorney’s General’s Office probed investigations on CareCredit, as well as 10 [...]

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Section 8 Rental Subsidy Voucher Peddler Pleads Guilty To 27 Counts Of Fraud

August 6, 2010

Joba Cortorreal, former supervisor at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, pleaded guilty to 26 counts of Bribe Receiving in the Third Degree and one count of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. Cortorreal was indicted in 2008 after the DOI launched wide scale Section 8 fraud investigation upon 19 [...]

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New York City Title Abstract Company And Its President Charged For Stealing More Than $6.7 Million From Real Estate Closings

August 5, 2010

Laurence Lewitas, the owner and president of Gotham Abstract, LLC, New York City title abstract company, was arrested and charged with two counts of Grand Larceny in the First Degree, and two counts of scheme to defraud in the First Degree for stealing more than $6.7 million from more than 105 real estate transactions.
Between November [...]

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What if you are served a Suppoena by the Office of the Attorney General?

August 5, 2010

Most white collar criminal prosecutions are made possible only after a long and detailed investigative process. In New York, the Office of the Attorney General is authorized to investigate and prosecute a wide array of white collar crimes. As part of its jurisdiction, the Office of the Attorney General, under New York Executive Law §63, [...]

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Owner And Operator Of New York Debt Collection Agency Faces Dire Consequences For Bribery And Medicaid Fraud

August 3, 2010

Deborah Kantor, the owner and operator of H.I.S Holdings, Inc. a debt collection agency that mostly services to New York hospitals, pleaded guilty to one count of Bribery and three counts of Rewarding Official Misconduct for bribing a hospital social worker in exchange for Medicaid client identification numbers and his approval of incomplete or falsified [...]

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