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Photo by Park Slope StoopSeven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including MS 51 — William Alexander Middle School, prosecutors announced last Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from
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Seven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a Brooklyn terminal
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A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)The klutzy Mill Basin liquor store owner who accidentally discharged his 9mm Ruger [/mill-basin-man-shoots-brighton-beach-woman-in-head-at-glitzy-waldorf-astoria-wedding/] during a wedding at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel was arrested Tuesday after turning himself in to police. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus
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Image courtesy of Manhattan DA’s office [http://manhattanda.org/press-release/manhattan-da%E2%80%99s-office-doi-nypd-announce-arrests-and-criminal-charges-widespread-briber] .Dozens of residential buildings and residents in Bed-Stuy, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Borough Park and other neighborhoods across Brooklyn — including Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Flatlands, Midwood, and Coney Island — are caught up in a bribery scandal [http:
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Source: wmfawmfa/FlickrArea resident Petr Murmylyuk was sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiring to hack into retail brokerage accounts and execute sham trades, the U.S. Attorney announced on Friday. Murmylyuk, who also went by the name Dmitry Tokar, pleaded guilty in July 2013 to charges of conspiracy
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Source: wmfawmfa/FlickrThe alleged leader of a tax fraud ring employing Kazakh student visa-holders and a phony job placement website pleaded guilty on Tax Day yesterday, the Manhattan District Attorney announced. We first wrote about Petr Murmylyuk last year [/petr-murmylyuk-a-k-a-dmitry-tokar-charged-with-fraud-hacking-identity-theft-money-laundering/] , when he was charged in Newark as the alleged leader
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Petr Murmylyuk, a.k.a. Dmitry Tokar, is having a bad day. Murmylyuk has been slapped with a slew of federal charges in two different states. First came a federal indictment in Newark, New Jersey, in which the 31-year-old is identified as the alleged leader of a $1 million securities