A Long Island contractor has been indicted for allegedly cheating Hurricane Sandy victims out of millions of dollars. AliBaumanTV spoke to a victim outside Federal Court in Central Islip.
-- A Long Island contractor has been indicted for allegedly cheating Hurricane Sandy victims out of millions of dollars.
McParland came to Federal Court on Thursday to see the contractor who he says scammed him out of $150,000 and left his home uninhabitable.Federal prosecutors are charging Alexander Almaraz, a former Long Island contractor, in a 20-count indictment with wire fraud conspiracy. Prosecutors allege about 20 victims hired the contractor after Sandy to repair their damaged homes, in all paying Almaraz about $2.5 million. The indictment claims Almaraz even convinced some of the homeowners to move out and pay him rent to live elsewhere, while their houses further decayed.
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