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Fake IRS Agents Target More than 360,000, Make Off With $15.5M in Scam

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Fake IRS Agents Target More than 360,000, Make Off With $15.5M in Scam

Thursday, 12 Mar 2015 10:33 AM

A federal investigator says fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail time as part of a huge nationwide scam.

A deputy inspector general for the agency says more than 3,000 people have fallen for the ruse since October 2013. He says they have been duped out of a total of $15.5 million.

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Ridgewood reimbursed nearly $450,000 by FEMA for storm costs

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Ridgewood reimbursed nearly $450,000 by FEMA for storm costs

DECEMBER 7, 2014, 6:26 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014, 6:27 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — The village recently received a pair of large checks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, totaling nearly $450,000.

The checks reimburse Ridgewood for overtime costs and damage it sustained as a result of both Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

Calling the infusion of cash “excellent” news, Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said another check would be sent to the village before the end of the year for $382,900.

Getting the reimbursements from the federal agency has not been easy.

Village officials — working with representatives from Sen. Bob Menendez’s office — have been meeting in recent months with state and federal officials to ensure the money was recouped.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-reimbursed-nearly-450-000-by-fema-for-storm-costs-1.1148183

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Man who stole $460,000 in quarters from Ridgewood to be sentenced

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Man who stole $460,000 in quarters from Ridgewood to be sentenced

JULY 9, 2014    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

The former Ridgewood official who confessed in March to stealing $460,000 in loose parking meter quarters from a storage room inside Village Hall is to be sentenced this afternoon.

Hawthorne resident Thomas Rica, who is Ridgewood’s former public works inspector, is to appear before state Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma in Hackensack.

It is expected that Rica will receive no jail time.

Under the terms of a plea deal struck by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and his lawyer, Robert Galantucci, Rica will be sentenced to five years’ probation.

Additionally, Rica will be ordered to make full restitution to the village, authorities have said.

“Thanks to the Prosecutor’s Office, Ridgewood residents will get back most, if not all, of the money shamelessly stolen from them,” Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn said on Tuesday.

“That’s important,” he added. “That’s key.”

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