Nonprofit gal in slush-mess 'fess ("just here for a better life" bilking taxpayers)

NY POST ^ | 3/3/10 | BRUCE GOLDING

[Liz]

Embezzled govt money funneled to latino Dems. Margarita Villegas stole with a credit card, filed false reports, diverted $15,000 from govt-funded SBCC Management Corp to Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo and her daughter, Bronx Councilman Maria del Carmen Arroyo. Now in prison is ex-Councilman Miguel Martinez. Arroyo's nephew, SBCC president Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, is expected to plead guilty to looting.

[Liz]

L/E needs to scrutuinize the papers of those crooks.

Margarita Villegas stole govt money with a credit card, filed false official reports, diverted $15,000 from govt-funded SBCC Management Corp to Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo and her daughter, Bronx Councilman Maria del Carmen Arroyo. Now in prison is ex-Councilman Miguel Martinez. Arroyo's nephew, SBCC president Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, is expected to plead guilty to looting.

July 21, 2006 Two Texans busted in bogus ID operation in NJ
NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security , expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, authorities said. The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force, regularly runs checks.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately. The Texas brothers consented to a search.

Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs. All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 Social Security cards.

[Liz]

ping

[marstegreg]

I believe that his is exactly how the repaid TARP monies are slighted to be spent. I think this is why Pelosi is telling the Dems not to worry. They are going to funnel money to all of them before the elections.

[AuntB]

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