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1. Yu Jane Chen sentenced to 5 years in prison for mortgage and credit card scheme
(N.J./State)

... second-degree theft by deception. She must pay restitution of $1,153,375, for which she is jointly and severally liable with her co-defendants. Chen was arrested in May by the Naperville police. On Oct. ...

2. Former Perth Amboy mayor Joe Vas pleads guilty to corruption charges
(N.J./State)

... is jointly and severally liable with his co-defendants for paying a total of $222,833 in restitution. "Former mayor Vas and his longtime aide pleaded guilty to illegally pumping funds into Vas' congressional ...

3. Melvin Ramos guilty of money laundering, conspiracy
(N.J./State)

... in restitution to Perth Amboy. "This longtime aide to Mayor Vas today admitted that, at the mayor's bidding, he engaged in two illegal schemes: one to pump funds into Vas' congressional campaign, and ...

4. Martin Grendel of Montville and son plead guilty to falsifying home loan applications
(Money/Economy)

... his plea agreement, the state will recommend that he be sentenced to a term of probation. In addition, the Gendels will be ordered to comply with any civil judgments or orders of restitution stemming ...

5. Stephen Valenzano of Hazlet pleads guilty to stealing from Port Authority
(N.J./State)

... to a term of probation. He will be required to pay restitution to the Port Authority of $2,544. He resigned his job and will be permanently barred from public employment. Callahan scheduled sentencing ...

6. Andres Santana of Newark pleads guilty to stealing from UMDNJ
(N.J./State)

... plea agreement, the state will recommend that Santana be sentenced to a term of probation. He lost his job and will be permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey. Santana must pay restitution ...

7. Port Authority employees plead guilty to falsifying over $10,000 in attendance, mileage, and mean costs
(N.J./State)

... to pay restitution to the Port Authority of $7,922. She resigned her job Tuesday and will be permanently barred from public employment. Jones' co-worker, Vincent Price, 50, of Roselle, pleaded guilty ...

8. Donald Codey gets probation for stealing and condoning bad checks at Freehold Raceway
(N.J./State)

... probation by state Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Scully in Freehold. Codey and the two co-defendants (the track patrons) must pay a total of $902,749 in restitution to the corporate owner of track to ...

9. Zina Martin of Jackson sentenced to prison for defrauding investors
(N.J./State)

... 45, of Jackson, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge James Den Uyl in Toms River, state Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor said. Martin was also ordered to pay restitution to her victims ...

10. James Sgambati of Parsippany gets prison for role in auto ‘give up’ scheme
(N.J./State)

A Morris County man was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday for falsely reporting that his car had been stolen. James Sgambati, 31, of Parsippany, was also ordered to pay restitution to New ...

11. Sam Serritella of Garfield pleads guilty to taking $1.7M from investors in ‘therapeutic’ horseshoe scam
(N.J./State)

... agreement, Serritella faces a sentence of five to 10 years in prison, and must sign a consent judgment to pay $1.7 million in restitution to the investors he defrauded. Roma scheduled sentencing for Serritella ...

12. Samuel M. Serritella of Garfield pleads guilty to taking $1.7 million from investors in horseshoe scam
(N.J./State)

... of five to 10 years in prison, and must sign a consent judgment to pay $1.7 million in restitution to the investors he defrauded. Roma scheduled sentencing for Serritella for Jan. 14. Serritella was ...

13. Anthony Foti, formerly of Brick, gets 5 years in prison for failing to pay sales taxes
(N.J./State)

... paid as restitution. Foti pleaded guilty on Oct. 4 to theft by failure to make a required disposition of property and purposely failing to remit sales taxes, both second-degree offenses. The charges ...

14. Ex-Morris tax official Anthony Crecco facing prison
(N.J./State)

... also agreed under the plea agreement to pay full restitution to the Florham Park-Fairfield Elks Lodge for funds that he and co-defendant Konstantin Belenky, 43, of East Hanover, misappropriated from the ...

15. Wells Fargo agrees to $67M in home loan modifications for nearly 900 N.J. families
(Money/Economy)

... will pay the state $3.98 million. Of that amount, up to $2 million will be distributed as restitution to New Jersey consumers who had a "Pick-a-Payment" mortgage, became delinquent and were forced to leave ...

16. Magdy Rafla of East Brunswick gets 3 years in prison for taking $45,000 through insurance fraud
(N.J./State)

... Prior to sentencing, full restitution was paid to the insurance companies. In pleading guilty, Rafla, the billing manager at his wife's dental practice located in East Brunswick, admitted that between ...

17. Yu Jane Chen pleads guilty to role in $1.1M mortgage and credit card scheme
(Money/Economy)

... Court Judge Liliana S. DeAvila-Silebi in Hackensack. The state will recommend a sentence in the second-degree range of five to 10 years in prison. Chen must pay restitution of $1,153,375, for which she ...

18. William Reilley of Carlstadt gets 3 years in prison for stealing $128K from Fort Lee business
(N.J./State)

... to pay $128,209.65 in restitution. The sentence was based on Reilley's guilty plea to second-degree theft by deception, a charge that was contained in a Nov. 13 state grand jury indictment. As a result ...

19. Pharmacist Kamal Moorjani of Lyndhurst gets 3 years for Medicaid fraud
(N.J./State)

... Riza Dagli said. Moorjani was ordered to pay $1,289 in restitution to the Medicaid Program and $10,000 to the Jersey City police. Moorjani also agreed to pay a $30,000 civil penalty to Medicaid and forfeit ...

20. Luigi Sacco of Fair Lawn gets 3 years in prison for stealing $13,325 in life insurance proceeds
(N.J./State)

... of third-degree insurance fraud and was subsequently sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay restitution. By pleading guilty, Scaturro admitted that he submitted false disbursement request ...