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NY: 3 charged with stealing almost 92Gs in child-support payments
3 charged with stealing almost 92Gs in child-support payments
Borough resident, former Islander are accused in theft of 155 city checks Friday, June 23, 2006 By HEIDI J. SHRAGER http://www.silive.com/news/advance/i...120.xml&coll=1 A former Staten Islander and two alleged accomplices have been arrested for stealing 155 child-support payment checks worth $91,999 from the city Office of Child-Support Enforcement. Carlos Marks, 35, was arrested early this month for masterminding the scheme. Now a resident of Springfield, Mass., Marks was working in an HRA mailroom in Manhattan, where he stole the checks, intended for custodial parents, and deposited them into his Citibank account, according to the city Department of Investigation. He enlisted two accomplices, Island resident Melissa Castillo, 24, and Jamal Williams, 35, who told investigators he was homeless. Marks paid them to open their own Citibank accounts and deposit some of the stolen checks. "Stealing child-support money is a despicable abuse of the city's program to help children and families obtain financial support from absent parents," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. From July 2004 to November 2005, 26 checks worth $27,831 went into Marks' account; 47 checks totaling $40,730 went into Castillo's account, and 82 checks totaling $23,438 were deposited into Williams' account, the DOI said. Marks -- who earned $21,795 working for the Office of Child-Support Enforcement, part of the Human Resources Administration -- was arrested earlier this month. He was charged with grand larceny and 25 counts of forgery. Ms. Castillo, a part-time clerk at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday and charged with grand larceny and 46 counts of forgery. Williams was arrested earlier this year and charged with identity theft, grand larceny and scheme to defraud. Each faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. While Marks and Ms. Castillo will be prosecuted in Manhattan, Williams' case will be handled by the Queens district attorney. The investigation began in March 2005, when Citibank's fraud department alerted HRA, which in turn notified DOI, that Marks had deposited a large number of city child-support checks for which he was not the payee. Heidi J. Shrager covers City Hall for the Advance. She may be reached at . |
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NY: 3 charged with stealing almost 92Gs in child-support payments
Terri wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:40:35 -0400, Werebat wrote: Eh. They'll probably just make the NCPs cough up the money all over again. No biggie. - Ron ^*^ You got that right. The State, of course, gets to keep the money they confiscated from the would-be thieves... You know, as a "finder's fee" and all that... It's all for the children, you know. Something like that. - Ron ^*^ wrote: 3 charged with stealing almost 92Gs in child-support payments Borough resident, former Islander are accused in theft of 155 city checks Friday, June 23, 2006 By HEIDI J. SHRAGER http://www.silive.com/news/advance/i...120.xml&coll=1 A former Staten Islander and two alleged accomplices have been arrested for stealing 155 child-support payment checks worth $91,999 from the city Office of Child-Support Enforcement. Carlos Marks, 35, was arrested early this month for masterminding the scheme. Now a resident of Springfield, Mass., Marks was working in an HRA mailroom in Manhattan, where he stole the checks, intended for custodial parents, and deposited them into his Citibank account, according to the city Department of Investigation. He enlisted two accomplices, Island resident Melissa Castillo, 24, and Jamal Williams, 35, who told investigators he was homeless. Marks paid them to open their own Citibank accounts and deposit some of the stolen checks. "Stealing child-support money is a despicable abuse of the city's program to help children and families obtain financial support from absent parents," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. From July 2004 to November 2005, 26 checks worth $27,831 went into Marks' account; 47 checks totaling $40,730 went into Castillo's account, and 82 checks totaling $23,438 were deposited into Williams' account, the DOI said. Marks -- who earned $21,795 working for the Office of Child-Support Enforcement, part of the Human Resources Administration -- was arrested earlier this month. He was charged with grand larceny and 25 counts of forgery. Ms. Castillo, a part-time clerk at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday and charged with grand larceny and 46 counts of forgery. Williams was arrested earlier this year and charged with identity theft, grand larceny and scheme to defraud. Each faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. While Marks and Ms. Castillo will be prosecuted in Manhattan, Williams' case will be handled by the Queens district attorney. The investigation began in March 2005, when Citibank's fraud department alerted HRA, which in turn notified DOI, that Marks had deposited a large number of city child-support checks for which he was not the payee. Heidi J. Shrager covers City Hall for the Advance. She may be reached at . |
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NY: 3 charged with stealing almost 92Gs in child-support payments
"Werebat" wrote in message news:75Wmg.114910$Ce1.41461@dukeread01... Terri wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:40:35 -0400, Werebat wrote: Eh. They'll probably just make the NCPs cough up the money all over again. No biggie. - Ron ^*^ You got that right. The State, of course, gets to keep the money they confiscated from the would-be thieves... You know, as a "finder's fee" and all that... It's all for the children, you know. Something like that. I heard several times from the CS Accounting Unit when complaining about them not retrieving CS after a downward adjustment left me with a credit balance, "Once the money goes into the home there is nothing we can do about it." We're about to find out if the state really can do something about excess payments going into the home when the money is state money and not NCP money. |
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