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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Brooklyn, NY - Man Pays Parking Tickets With Stolen Credit Cards

Brooklyn, NY - A man has been accused of paying parking ticket fines with somebody else's money.

Daniel Markovitz was busted after using stolen credit cards to pay off 53 parking summonses worth more than $4,700, the city Department of Investigation said.
Some of the tickets belonged to his family and friends, who were duped into believing he had a connection to reduce their fines, the DOI said. "People should be forewarned: If a deal looks too good, it probably is,'' DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said.

Markovitz, 23, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of grand larceny, scheme to defraud and identity theft, Hearn said.

The investigation began after the city Department of Finance determined Markovitz might have used stolen credit cards to make payments over the Internet on his own parking tickets, Hearn said. The DOI then determined that he had used three stolen cards to pay off 53 tickets for himself, his friends and relatives, Hearn said.
Although Markovitz told his victims that he could get parking tickets reduced through his connections with the Parking Violations Bureau, he instead took their cash and paid the tickets with the credit cards, and he pocketed more than $2,000, the DOI said.
Even worse, the cost of all the tickets was reinstated by the city.
But Michael Farkas, attorney for Markovitz, said there was more to the case than the DOI version. "We sincerely hope that there is no rush to judgment on this matter as we believe Mr. Markovitz may soon be shown to be a victim in this case himself,'' Farkas said. "We believe there's more to this case that needs to be investigated.''

3 Comments:

  • At 9:41 PM, Blogger Shtender Bender said…

    Dan l'kaf zechus? Let's ask a victim for his side of the story.

     
  • At 10:58 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    his story is he "borrowed" the money and g-d will pay it back

     
  • At 4:40 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    is this a heimesha man from our communty?

     

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