By Forum Staff
A Brooklyn woman has been charged with stealing millions of dollars from her employer for a third of the 22 years she worked at a demolition company in Maspeth, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
Vedeyah Badal, 56, has been arraigned on a three-count criminal complaint charging her with grand larceny in the first degree, money laundering in the second degree, and falsifying business records in the first degree. Badal was ordered to return to court on June 7.
According to the charges, Badal worked for Titan Industrial Services Inc. for 22 years. She was the company’s in-house accountant and had access and virtually unlimited control over the business’s finances throughout her tenure at the interior/exterior demolition company. In 2019, Badal left the company. It was at that point, someone discovered three employees who existed in name only and that these three fictitious workers were getting paid weekly.