A lawyer has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $2 million from the Staten Island Jewish cemetery he was running in the aftermath of a smaller embezzlement scandal there.
The overseer of a nonprofit New York cemetery who took control after the former operators were indicted for embezzlement was charged with stealing nearly $2 million.
A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a New York Jewish cemetery paid $1.1 million in restitution as part of a civil settlement agreement and was sentenced to five years’ probation.
