NYC nonprofit founder indicted for taking millions in kickbacks under city-funded COVID housing program

NYC nonprofit founder indicted for taking millions in kickbacks under city-funded COVID housing program

During the height of the pandemic, the founder of a city-funded nonprofit aiding people released from jail allegedly took $2.5 million in cash kickbacks, plus other gifts, including home and luxury car loan payments to funnel tens of millions in public funds to two corrupt businesspeople, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged Thursday. Julio Medina, the…

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Cops nab crook who swiped gold plated 9/11 rose

Cops nab crook who swiped gold plated 9/11 rose

Cops have arrested the man they say swiped a $3,000 gold-plated rose from a 9/11 memorial at a Midtown church. Members of the NYPD’s Manhattan Warrant Squad grabbed Deikel Alcantara, 21, for Wednesday’s theft at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on W. 31st St. near Seventh Ave., down the block from Penn Station, cops said….

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