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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-crime-pastor-idUST
(Reuters) - A New York pastor has been arrested and accused of fraudulently
cashing pension checks worth nearly a quarter-million dollars sent to a
school teacher who died more than a decade ago, authorities said on Thursday.
Rev. Victor Rosa was accused of deceiving New York City's Teacher Retirement
System into thinking that teacher Maria Sicardo was still alive and had her
checks sent to a building he owns in the Bronx, investigators said.
He would cash the checks, which amounted to about $241,000, often at a local
bank, investigators said. Investigators said they interviewed bank staff,
who recalled Rosa often preached about God to other customers while waiting
in line.
Sicardo died in April 2000 at age 75.
A report by the New York City's Department of Investigation said in the
years after her death, someone sent fraudulently notarized documents to the
Teacher Retirement System, purportedly signed by Sicardo, affirming that she
was still alive.
In 2010, Rosa received a call from the Teacher Retirement System and told
the caller that Sicardo had died three months earlier, in June 2010, in
Puerto Rico, the report said.
He said he would return the checks for July, August and September, it said.
Investigators said they caught Rosa cashing the checks at a bank in the city
's Bronx borough on security camera footage.
He was arrested last week in Orlando, Florida, where he now lives, and is
slated to face prosecution by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Cynthia
Johnston) |
