Fraud in NJ: Former Car Dealer Pleads Guilty to 2nd Degree Theft

Rudolph Chiorazzo, who was president and owner of South Shore Ford, Inc., a car dealership in Marmora that went bankrupt in 2006, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft by deception by defrauding the company that financed his car inventory. The dealer lied about his inventory in financial statements provided to the lender to conceal the fact [...] Read more »

NJ Criminal Lawyer: Former NJ MVC Auditor Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Timesheets

James Pluchino, a former auditor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC), pleaded guilty to third-degree theft by deception by falsifying audit records and time sheets to cover up unexcused absences and his failure to perform assigned audits of private vehicle inspection facilities. The charge was contained in a state grand jury indictment obtained [...] Read more »

NJ Criminal Lawyer: Client Accused of Striking Pedestrian Found Not Guilty

In April of 2012, NJ Criminal Lawyer Pasquale O. Vella, Esq. of Garces & Grabler, P.C. represented a client, “J.H.” in an Essex County Municipal Court accused of striking a New Jersey Turnpike Authority worker while on duty. Initially, “J.H.” was accused of committing the following motor vehicle infractions: Read more Charged with a Criminal [...] Read more »

NJ Criminal Defense Lawyers: Attempted Murder Charge Amended to Aggravated Assault

In March of 2012, NJ Criminal Defense lawyers Jonathan A. Kessous, Esq., and Samuel Perez, Esq., of the Criminal Defense Unit of Garces & Grabler, P.C. represented R.M.P. in the Somerset County Superior Court. He was initially charged with an Attempted Murder that would have resulted in prison sentence of well more than ten (10) [...] Read more »

Trenton, New Jersey Man Charged With Robbing Bank In Dress Disguise

A Trenton man who allegedly robbed a bank last month in Mercerville, N.J., appeared in federal court this afternoon to face a related charge, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Kenneth Darrian, 25, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois H. Goodman on a Complaint charging him with one count of bank robbery. According to the [...] Read more »