Sep. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced her office prevailed in a hearing on Sept. 10 to restore eight deeds associated with five properties to their rightful owners after Justin Joseph of South Ozone Park had stolen them in a deed fraud scheme. The statute used by her office…
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Southeast Queens homes will be returned to rightful owners after couple plead guilty to deed fraud scheme: DA
May. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry
A South Ozone Park couple pleaded guilty to a deed fraud scheme to steal homes in Southeast Queens following a long-term investigation.
Two con men plead guilty in deed fraud scam to steal houses in Queens, Nassau County: DA
Dec. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry A Far Rockaway man and his accomplice from Long Island pleaded guilty to a wide-ranging scheme to steal residential properties in Queens and Nassau County by filing forged deeds, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday. Russell Carbone, 69, of Beach Ninth Street, and Terrell Hill, 40, of West Hempstead, worked together to target homes where the owners died and their heirs had not taken title to them. To help find the properties, Hill, a landscaper, would alert Carbone, a disbarred attorney, to homes that appeared abandoned. Most of the properties turned out to…
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