Did Yonkers Police Sergeant Work in Real Estate While On COVID Leave? What We Know; COVID Fraudster from Mid-City Gets 5 Years in Federal Prison, and other C-Virus related stories
Did Yonkers police sergeant work in real estate while on COVID leave? What we know:
A Yonkers police sergeant with a second job as a real estate agent was suspended without pay by the department this month while on medical leave.
City and police officials would not confirm that Michael Quatrocci, out of work for nearly five years after contracting COVID, was suspended because he was engaged in outside employment despite collecting his regular, tax-free city paycheck while out on disability.
The suspension took effect Feb. 14 and lasts until March 15, according to a general order signed by police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza.
Was Yonkers officer working in real estate while on leave?
A police spokesman confirmed that Quatrocci has been out of work since March 2020. Speaking generally and not about Quatrocci, he acknowleded that the department’s medical-leave policy prohibits outside employment while on sick, injured, or disabled status.
A lawyer representing Quatrocci did not return multiple phone calls, nor did police Capt. Michael Hanley, president of the Yonkers Captains, Lieutenants & Sergeants Association.
A man who answered the cell phone number listed for Quatrocci as a Houseabilities LLC agent and on an online database claimed that was not Quatrocci’s number.
Internet searches revealed that among several transactions in recent years he was the real estate agent for the buyer of a Mahopac home in October 2023 and the buyer of an Eastchester home in January 2024. —>READ MORE HERE
COVID fraudster from Mid-City gets 5 years in federal prison:
A Mid-City Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for a pandemic-relief scheme that took in more than $2 million.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Casie Hynes, 39, took more than $2.25 million in government loans offered due to the COVID-19 pandemic and tried to get almost $1.3 million more in tax credits from the IRS by submitting false claims.
She pleaded guilty to wire fraud and false claims last year.
In addition to her five-year sentence handed down Thursday, Hynes must repay nearly $2.4 million in restitution.“The defendant exploited a crisis to line her own pockets, diverting vital relief funds from businesses that needed the money,” acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally said in the release. “The sentence imposed today sends a message to others that you will be held accountable if you steal government relief funds.”
Hynes’ scheme lasted from June 2020 to December 2021, during which she submitted “more than 80 fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) from banks and the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) in the names of approximately 20 companies,” the release said.
For those companies that had names like the “Nasty Womxn Project and She Suite Collective,” Hynes would claim that she or one of her friends or family members were the owner. Then, prosecutors said, she would falsify information like the number of employees or average monthly payroll, often using “the personal information and signatures of other people without their authorization and even though those people were not involved with the companies.” —>READ MORE HERE
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