On May 22, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced that Craig Hecht, 51, of Long Island, had been charged in connection with a scheme to steal a vacant brownstone building from an elderly homeowner.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, the owner and her family moved out in 2010 after a fire made the building uninhabitable. Hecht and a codefendant allegedly used a forged deed to transfer the property to an entity they controlled and sold it for $850,000 in 2015.