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Seven More Arrests In Heating Oil Scam That Cheated MS 51

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 Arrests In Heating Oil Scam That Cheated Madison & Murrow High Schools

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

Police & Fire

Mill Basin Klutz Who Shot Up Waldorf Astoria Wedding Arrested & Charged

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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DOB-HPD Employees And Brooklyn Property Managers Arrested In Bribery Scandal

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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Petr Murmylyuk Sentenced To 30 Months For $1 Million Hacking Scheme

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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Petr Murmylyuk Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft And Tax Fraud

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, Charged With Fraud, Hacking, Identity Theft, Money Laundering

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