Bookkeeper from Dumont draws nine-year sentence for embezzling $500K from Ramsey company
OCTOBER 2, 2015, 5:56 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015, 5:58 PM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
A bookkeeper who authorities said embezzled more than $500,000 from a Ramsey flooring company and lost most of it gambling at casinos was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison.
Monica P. Arencibia, 51, of Dumont told state Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti that she has been living “under the control of a dark secret” — a gambling addiction — and that she wished she could “undo” the harm she had caused.
She acknowledged that she had “violated the trust” of her employer, Gary Perazzo, the owner of Modern Floor Co., Inc., and said she had wanted to tell him what she was doing, but felt “too ashamed.”
Ex-Ridgewood inspector apologizes for stealing nearly half a million dollars in quarters
JULY 9, 2014, 2:39 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014, 2:57 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
HACKENSACK — Ridgewood’s former public works inspector repeatedly apologized on Wednesday for stealing nearly half a million dollars in loose parking meter quarters from the village.
“I am sorry for what I have done,” Thomas Rica told Judge Patrick Roma moments before being sentenced to five years’ probation. “I am very sorry. I’m…I’m just sorry.”
Rica, who lives in Hawthorne, was employed by the village for 10 years before his arrest early last year.
As part of a plea deal accepted by Roma Wednesday, Rica plead to four counts of third-degree theft, and will pay back a little more than half of what he admits he stole from his former employers.
Rica admitted in March to taking the coins over more than two years from a storage room within Village Hall.
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So judge Roma accepted the plea deal between Tommy Boy Rica and Molinelli, but Arencibia gets nine years in state prison for stealing the same amount? WTF? Guess she didn’t have the right connections in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s office or with the Courts?
The thief from Ridgewood has a better lawyer.
The thief from Ridgewood had police co-conspirators all along and his no-sentence sentence was to keep their names to himself.
Or he’s a “made man” with dirt on the Prosecutor and judge
How’s that repayment deal coming along? How much so far?
Since you are on the “In” Who are the police Co-Conspirators ? Or Did you attend the Mayor’s class on how to Bullshit.
Did any check if coin boy contributed to the 3 Amigos election campaign.
Hey 11:46 I would look at NJS 2C:29-3 (3)
Life is defitely not fair.
The Ridgewood case sure still smells funny doesn’t it?
This town is a joke…a complete F@&$?!g joke.
We’re being made a mockery by the powers that be and their laughing all the way to the bank…general theft, pension theft, you name it. The pooch is getting screwed and all you people can talk about is how wonderful the schools are????.