U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern ordered former Sullivan County car dealer Howard Braunstein to pay $355,638 in restitution to the U.S. Small Business Administration and to forfeit $350,000 to the government, Nov. 30 in federal court, White Plains, for PPP fraud.
A Rockland roofing contractor who was criminally charged in July in the death of an employee has consented to U.S. Department of Labor civil penalties and proposed remedial actions.
Casanova cites “extraordinary acceptance of responsibility” in association with his role in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang court case.
Casanova is challenging the legal definition of the crime he was charged for in an attempt to reduce the 15-year prison sentence he was subsequently handed.