Posted on 09/06/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT by NoLibZone
Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, ex-city worker Natarajan Venkataram says he’s sorry he stole millions of dollars meant for identifying the remains of trade center victims.
He’s just not sorry enough to turn over $400,000 sitting in his bank account in India.
The city has recovered $7 million of the $10 million he and an accomplice stole, but he went to court to hold onto this final portion of his ill-gotten gains.
In a phone interview from the federal prison camp at Fort Dix, N.J., Venkataram, 46, whined about jail conditions and apologized repeatedly for his crime.
Asked about the disputed cash, Venkataram said: “All the issues are still pending in the court.”
The city medical examiner’s office got millions of dollars from the feds to help identify the remains of nearly 3,000 victims.
Venkataram, then a manager dealing with the medical examiner’s computer system, and his girlfriend, Rosa Abreu, siphoned off millions via shell companies and fake contract bids.
When Venkataram learned probers were on to him, he transferred $1 million to his Indian bank accounts, prosecutors say.
Arrested in 2005, Venkataram pleaded guilty to embezzlement and money laundering. He got 15 years in jail; Abreu got six.
Venkataram also was ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Hoping to retrieve even more, the city sued him and won an $8 million judgment in 2009.
“We’ve been using that judgment to collect any other money that we can find of his,” city lawyer Eric Proshansky said.
The city — led by the Department of Investigation — has recovered nearly $7 million from the scheme, including $6 million from an overseas company.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/04/2011-09-04_city_worker_jailed_for_stealing_10m_from_fund_to_identify_911_remains_still_hold.html#ixzz1XCP734BI
“Natarajan Venkataram”, damn Amish again.
Well, he apologized so why don’t we just forget about it....
One possible solution:
1) Install bullet in to back of Natarajan Venkataram’s head.
2) Bill his fammily $400,000 for cost of bullet.
If a judge orders him to return it after a judgement against him, and he doesn’t return it, then contempt of court will keep him in jail a very long time.
This guy sounds like the Hindu variety of Amish.
let the jail conditions continue to deteriorate until the money all is returned
Shuttle him over to India and let him sit in one of their jails forever. Hell, a regular toilet is luxury compared to the open pipe squat toilet they use over there, if they have even that.
Isn’t diversity grand?
I wonder who else cashed in on 9/11...
except for the widows Ann Coulter spoke of in her book..
Its possible we do have a corrupt Congress that matches the corruption of “the People”..
We could have a congress that we deserve..
We could have a congress that we deserve..
I used to live in the fifth congressional district of MO that elected Emmanual "you're going to have a certain level of corruption in government" Cleaver.
After seeing most of his constituents, I'm convinced that we've got the corrupt Congress we deserve.
Mark
moslems don’t apologize..to Infidels.
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