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Police Recover Dozens Of Weapons In Brooklyn Home

January 29, 2010

Four Brooklyn residents were arrested recently after police found 30 guns and nine other weapons in their home in Gravesend. Thomas Siano, 57, his 58-year-old wife Kathleen Siano, his 29-year-old son Vincent Siano and 29-year-old family friend and tenant Michael Poole were arrested and charged with multiple charges of criminal possession of weapons. Police found [...]

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Government probes 15 FHA lenders

January 29, 2010

Federal housing officials on Tuesday served subpoenas on 15 mortgage companies with suspiciously high default rates for loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration. The actions are part of a broad crackdown on dubious lenders as the agency tries to stem losses. After the housing market went bust, the FHA became the major source of [...]

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Homeless Services paid out millions of dollars

January 29, 2010

The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) paid out millions of dollars ($152.7 million in FY08) to non-contracted service providers based on an “honor system” of unwritten agreements, invented rates and duplicate clients lists, according to an audit initiated under former Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. and just completed by Comptroller John C. Liu. “Who would [...]

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City Immigration Firms Charged With Fraud

January 29, 2010

Two firms offering services for immigrants in Manhattan and the Bronx have been charged with fraud. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing two non-profits — International Immigrants Foundation and International Professional Association — for allegedly scamming immigrants by making false promises of citizenship and charging exorbitant fees.

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Wyclef gets $250,000 to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser

January 29, 2010

The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the [...]

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NJ woman pleads guilty in $15-m real estate Ponzi scheme

October 3, 2009

  The former operator of a New Jersey Clifton-based real estate investment program pleaded guilty recently to operating a Ponzi-scheme in which she raised in excess of $15 million from hundreds of investors in New Jersey and throughout the United States, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. said. Marcia Sladich, 51, pleaded guilty before [...]