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Release Date: 03/03/1998
Release Number: USDL:
NY 122
Contact Name:GLORIA DELLA
Phone Number:
202.219.8921 |
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The owner of the now-defunct engineering support
service company in Ronkonkoma, New York, has been indicted by a federal grand
jury for the Eastern District of New York for embezzlement of $239,160 from the
company’s pension plan. |
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Alejandro Salas was the owner of Craftsmen
Corporation, 4175 Veterans Memorial Highway in Ronkonkoma and a trustee of its
defined benefit pension plan, which covered 29 employees. |
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Salas was arraigned on a complaint filed September
13, 1996, alleging that he embezzled about $239,160 from the pension plan,
which had been instituted in 1985 to provide retirement benefits to Craftsmen
employees. From February 1993 to August 1994, Salas took money out of the
plan’s account with Chemical bank and deposited the funds into the
company’s operating account. The money was used to run the
business. |
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The defendant was indicted on Feb. 25. This
criminal case resulted from an investigation conducted by the Department of
Labor’s New York Regional Office of the Pension and Welfare Benefit
Administration. It is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of New York. |
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U.S. v. Salas |
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U.S. Department of
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