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Cuomo Searches State Worker's Home, Office in Fraud Probe

By MICHAEL GORMLEY
The Associated Press
Tuesday, 06 Mar 2007, 8:56 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)  -- State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation of an eight-year scam in which he says the state was defrauded of $1.2 million prompted the seizing of a state worker's assets and a search of his home and office Tuesday.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Grand jury indicts Plano man with mail fraud and making false statements in used car sales

By Pegasus News wire

 

A federal grand jury in Dallas indicted Massoud Mortazavi-Koupai of Plano with six counts of mail fraud and three counts of making a false statement on transfer of a used motor vehicle, related to a fraudulent scheme which included concealing structural damage and odometer discrepancies. It is anticipated that Mortazavi-Koupai, 46, will surrender to federal authorities and then appear before a U.S. magistrate judge.

 

The search warrants targeted the Albany County home and Albany state office of James L. Leggiero, a $79,000-a-year principal auditor with the state Office of Mental Health, according to records filed in court Tuesday.

Leggiero hasn't been accused of a crime. Cuomo spokesman John Milgrim said the case will soon be presented to a grand jury, where Cuomo's Public Integrity Unit could seek charges including grand larceny, money laundering and defrauding the government.

Cuomo, investigating a referral from the state Comptroller's Office auditors, said a company named Very Important Property Inc. charged the state Office of Mental health more than $1.2 million since June 1998. VIP Inc. was paid to perform site feasibility studies for the state's residential treatment program.

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