A man who allegedly used other people’s identities to buy several luxury cars has been charged with grand larceny, identity theft, and other crimes, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.
Guang Jin, 33, of Queens, NY, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on August 13, 2020. He is due back in court in September.
Jin is facing up to 12 years in prison.
A Long Island man who forged a deed in order to steal a vacant brownstone building from an elderly homeowner has been sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
Craig Hecht, 52, of Mount Sinai, New York, pled guilty to second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering in December 2019.
He was facing up to 15 years in prison.
On June 27, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that a Brooklyn woman had been indicted on multiple charges including grand larceny, identity theft, and practicing law without a license for pretending to be an attorney and defrauding three clients out of $4,700.
According to the District Attorney, Natasha Riley, 56, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, allegedly held herself out as a licensed attorney with an office at 150 Kenilworth Place in Flatbush for around two years. She adopted the last name of an actual attorney with the same first name in order to deceive prospective clients. The attorney contacted the District Attorney’s office after she found out that her name was being used.
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.