New York Paralegal Blog

Stealing a home from an elderly widow receiving hospice care is a despicable act, and that's exactly what a recent case in New York uncovered. A Manhattan woman and a Queens man have been indicted for allegedly forging documents to steal the Queens home of an elderly widow, Renuka Bherwani. The Scheme to Steal a Home According to the investigation by the New York Attorney General's office, Deepa Roy, 68, and Victor Quimis, 39, worked together to steal the home that Mrs. Bherwani had owned for nearly 40 years. Here's how the alleged scheme unfolded: Gaining Access: While Mrs. Bherwani was in hospice care for dementia, Roy began visiting her home, claiming to be a friend. She later tried to move into the home but was denied by the family. Forging Documents: In October 2024, Roy and Quimis allegedly forged a deed transferring ownership of the home to themselves for free. They also forged other real estate documents, including the notarized signatures and stamps. Tr...

NYCPA Annual Election & General Meeting May 23, 2010 6:30 - 8:30 PM North Star Fund 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2203 New York, NY 10018 Between 36th & 37th Street |Subway: 34th Street – Penn Station

Firefighter Tormented by Sexual and Religious Harassment & Disciplined in Retaliation for Participating in Another Firefighter’s Discrimination Proceeding LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Fire Department will pay $494,150 and implement widespread anti-harassment training to settle federal charges of discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

VENTURA - Daniel Avila, a former candidate for the Thousand Oaks City Council has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison for threatening to kill six prosecutors in the Ventura County District Attorney's office. Avila was convicted of six counts of making criminal threats and six counts of threatening public officials on April 4 in Ventura County Superior Court. He was sentenced yesterday. The case was prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Jonathan Kline. "As the chief law enforcement officer of California," Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said, "I take very seriously any threat against prosecutors or police officers. They are the ones charged with keeping the public safe, so their own protection is doubly important, and violators must be punished. The result in this case achieves both objectives." Avila ran for the Thousand Oaks City Council in 2004, and was charged with hacking into the Verizon wireless system and sending bogus text messa...

NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today pledged to sue the federal government if it doesn’t commit in 30 days to conducting a full environmental review of proposed regulations that would allow natural gas drilling – including the potentially harmful "fracking" technique – in the Delaware River Basin. The Basin includes the New York City watershed and portions of Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie, Green, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan Counties, and provides approximately 50 percent of the drinking water used by over nine million New York residents and visitors every day. “Both the law and common sense dictate that the federal government must fully assess the impact of its actions before opening the door to gas fracking in New York,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “New Yorkers are correctly concerned about fracking's potential dangers to their environment, health and communities, and I will use the full authority of my office, including aggressive ...

ATLANTA—An indictment unsealed today charges two former top officers of FirstCity Bank of Stockbridge, Georgia—MARK A. CONNER, 44, formerly of Canton, Georgia, and CLAYTON A. COE, 44, of McDonough, Georgia—with a variety of offenses, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud in connection with misconduct at FirstCity Bank in the years before the bank’s seizure by state and federal authorities on March 20, 2009. In addition to the conspiracy and bank fraud charges, the indictment charges CONNER with conducting a continuing financial crimes enterprise at the bank between February 2006 and February 2008, during which CONNER’s and his co-conspirators’ crimes allegedly generated over $5 million in unlawful gross proceeds. A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned the sealed indictment against CONNER and COE on March 16, 2011. CONNER was arrested on the charges and taken into custody by federal agents at Miami International Airport yesterday morning, the two-year anniversary ...

STATEMENT OF MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON SENATE'S LAST IN FIRST OUT PROPOSAL "The Senate compromise makes sense in both the short and long term - it will enable us to keep the best teachers this year and achieve our share d goal of quickly implementing a new teacher evaluation system that will eventually be used to guide any future layoff decisions." There is no such thing as a good teacher or a bad teacher. There is only office politics, manipulation and who gets all the problem children. All of New York City's school teachers are well educated and qualified for the job that they have been hired to do. The question that the teacher's union and the public needs to ask is who is stacking the deck when it comes to assigning students to a particular teacher and classroom? Is Sally Super Teacher, doing a good job because she is teaching the same group of children that have historically performed well in class prior to Sally Super Teachers arrival or did Sally Sup...

WASHINGTON – The city of Kansas City, Mo., has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems, at a cost estimated to exceed $2.5 billion over 25 years, to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban storm water, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The settlement, lodged today in federal court in Kansas City, requires the city to implement the overflow control plan, which is the result of more than four years of public input. The plan is designed to yield significant long-term benefits to public health and the environment, and provide a model for the incorporation of green infrastructure and technology toward solving overflow issues.

New York, NY - The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MILAGROS RODRIGUEZ pleaded guilty yesterday in White Plains federal court to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from customer accounts at Hudson City Savings Bank. According to the Information to which RODRIGUEZ pleaded guilty, statements made during the plea proceeding, and other documents publicly filed in the case: From approximately April 2002 through March 2009, RODRIGUEZ, who was employed as a teller and later as a branch manager with Sound Federal Savings and Loan Association ("SFSLA") in New City, New York, and then with Hudson City Savings Bank "HCSB") after HCSB acquired SFSLA, embezzled more than $700,000 from the accounts of customers at the bank. RODRIGUEZ surrendered on April 8, 2009, and pleaded guilty yesterday, before United States District Judge CATHY SEIBEL, to one count of embezzling bank funds. RODRIGUEZ faces a maximum sentence of 30 years...

Join us as we celebrate our continued success at the trendy Manhattan hot spot Latitude Bar and Lounge on September 23rd. Network with other career paralegals, paralegal students and other law firm staff. All members will receive a free gift! Come for valuable info and prizes! Our event will take place 7 to 9 pm at Latitude Bar and Lounge, 783 8th Avenue (between 47th & 48th Streets). Please RSVP to events@nyc-pa.org as soon as possible so we can accommodate members at our reserved tables. The event is free for members. Non members are welcome for a nominal fee of $15.

WASHINGTON – Steven Sandstrom, 23, and Gary L. Eye, 22, both of Kansas City, Mo., received multiple life sentences today for the racially-motivated murder of William McCay on March 9, 2005. The defendants were convicted on May 8, 2008. Today’s announcement was made jointly by Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and John F. Wood, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. “Acts of violence motivated by race and hate tear at the fabric of our communities and destroy our faith in the ability of people to transcend their differences,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Becker. “It is imperative that hate crimes, like the murder of Mr. McCay, are not tolerated by our society, and the Justice Department will do its part by committing to continue its vigorous prosecution of such abhorrent violent acts of hate.” More...