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An accountant from Teaneck embezzled $1.2 million from a Wood-Ridge company that makes classroom furniture, authorities said following his arrest Thursday.
Manuel “Mendy” Goldring, 27, worked as a comptroller for Academia Furniture when he stole the money from checks, PayPal transfers and Amazon purchases, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Goldring, who lives in the Teaneck Gardens garden apartment complex, reportedly worked for Academia from Oct. 2015 to February 2020 before returning to accounting.
Musella’s detectives charged him money laundering, theft, impersonation, false swearing and computer-related crimes.
They sent him to the Bergen County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.
NJ Accountant Embezzled $1.2M From Former Employer: Prosecutor Manuel Mendy Goldring, of Teaneck, allegedly embezzled about $1.2 million from his former employer through the theft of checks, PayPal transfers and Amazon purchases.
Published February 19, 2021 •
Updated on February 19, 2021 at 11:50 am
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A 27-year-old New Jersey accountant is accused of embezzling about $1.2 million from his former employer through the theft of checks, PayPal transfers and Amazon purchases, the Bergen County Prosecutor s Office announced.
Manuel Mendy Goldring, of Teaneck, is facing charged of money laundering, computer-related crimes, theft by deception, impersonation and false swearing, prosecutors said Thursday.
On Oct.19, 2020, detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit allegedly received information from Goldring s former employer, a Bergen County based furniture company, regarding the unauthorized taking of funds