Former Bergen Resident From CT Admits Embezzling $540,000 From Security Firm
A former Bergen County resident now living in Connecticut admitted Wednesday that she embezzled $540,000 from a local company.
Melissa Corso, 50, and her husband lived in Closter when she worked for a Delaware-based security systems supplier with an office in Ridgefield Park, federal authorities said.
Corso, currently of Groton, CT, and co-worker Joseph Spaccavento steered customer payments owed to their former employer to a PayPal account registered to him and linked to her work email, according to an FBI complaint.
The customers, in turn, sent more than $3.1 million through 1,150 transa…
PA Brothers Indicted On Federal Charges For Setting Fire To Their Philly Restaurant
A pair of Delaware County brothers were indicted on federal charges when authorities discovered that the pair set fire to their restaurant after buying a $750,000 fire insurance policy only two weeks prior to the blaze, officials announced.
Imad Dawara, 40, of Swarthmore, and Bahaa Dawara, 32, of Woodlyn, admitted to planning and causing the arson of their business, RCL Management LLC in Philadelphia a little more than three years ago on February 18, 2018, and to evading the assessment of their income tax liabilities from 2015 to 2017, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Wi…
Three MS-13 Gang Members Charged In Fatal Stabbing Of 13-Year-Old
Three MS-13 members, already behind bars on other charges, have been indicted for the alleged knifing murder of a 13-year-old gang member in a Queens park.
On Thursday, Sept. 12, the United States Attorney’s office in Brooklyn charged Melvi Amador-Rios, 28, aka “Letal” and “Pinky”; Josue Leiva, 22, aka “Colocho”; and Luis Rivas, 24, aka “Inquieto,” both of Jamacia, Queens, with the May 2017 stabbing death of Julio Vasquez in Alley Pond Park.
The new charges include racketeering, murder, robbery, and firearms charges.
According to court filings, in early 2017, Amador-Rios, of Briarwood…