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  • City worker jailed for stealing $10M from fund to identify 9/11 remains still holding on to cash

    09/06/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT · by NoLibZone · 11 replies
    ny dailynews.com ^ | 9-6-2011 | BY Tina Moore
    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...