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Paramus NJ, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo announced the arrest of ALFREDO RAMOS (DOB: 07/19/1980; single; self-employed as an attorney) of 102 Belmont Avenue, Garfield, NJ on additional charges of Misapplication Of Entrusted Funds and Unauthorized Practice Of Law. RAMOS was previously arrested on December 18, 2018 by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and charged with one count of Misapplication Of Entrusted Funds. The new arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Robert Anzilotti.
In January 2019, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit received complaints from two clients of Alfredo RAMOS, Esq., regarding his failure to disburse to them over $90,000.00 each, which RAMOS had received in trust as the result of two real estate transactions.
During the course of the investigation, it was determined that RAMOS received the funds into his attorney’s trust account and then, instead of forwarding them to his clients, used them for his own purposes. RAMOS has been suspended from the practice of law since July 3, 2018 by order of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Alfredo RAMOS was arrested on January 29, 2019 in Paramus, NJ and charged with two counts of Misapplication Of Entrusted Funds, with the amount involved being greater than $75,000.00, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:21-15, a 2nd degree crime, and one count of Unauthorized Practice Of Law, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:21-22B(2), a 3rd degree crime. RAMOS is scheduled for a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.
Acting Prosecutor Calo states that the charges are merely accusations and that the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Wasn’t this Tommy Roca’s attorney who copped a sham plea deal on his $850,000 theft of parking meter quarters with the now disgraced Bergen County Prosecutor?