ICYMI: Marsh Restoration In Marine Park, Fraudster Ordered To Pay $500k, Body Turns Up In Brighton Beach

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The Army Corps of Engineers has nearly wrapped up $15 million of restoration work at Marine Park’s White Island. We took a kayak tour.
A man was ordered to pay back more than half a million dollars he stole while running 19 sham charities out of a Midwood office, claiming the funds were to help Israeli or Jewish causes. In reality, he used the accounts as a personal piggybank.
The Medicare billing practices of several area chiropractors, physical therapists and occupational therapists are raising eyebrows.
Faberge on Emmons Avenue has covered up its sign after a trademark lawsuit was filed by Faberge jewelers.
A woman was found dead in a Brighton Beach apartment; a girl was struck by an ambulance on Coney Island Avenue and is expected to be okay; worshipers at a local mosque were pelted with eggs and a 10-year-old girl drowned at Coney Island.