Real Estate Broker Gets House Arrest in Homeless-Shelter Bribery Scheme
The broker, Sheina Levin, was a former business partner of Victor Rivera, whose dealings were the subject of a New York Times investigation.
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The broker, Sheina Levin, was a former business partner of Victor Rivera, whose dealings were the subject of a New York Times investigation.
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The owner of a Brooklyn real estate company pleaded guilty this week to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to a homeless-shelter operator.
Real estate company owner Sheina Levin pled guilty to paying kickbacks to Victor Rivera of the Bronx Parent Housing Network in order to profit from homeless programs.
Victor Rivera was sentenced to more than two years in prison for accepting kickbacks while running his Bronx homeless shelter organization.