Saturday, March 13, 2010

Club Kalua owners busted for mortgage fraud

From the Daily News:

Queens prosecutors say Martina Duran, 57, and Roger Arias, 36, used identities stolen from the dead and the elderly to buy and sell three properties.

One victim was an elderly woman from the Dominican Republic who had never set foot on U.S. soil, prosecutors say.

Duran pocketed $250,000 from the July 2006 sale of a $500,000 South Ozone Park home, prosecutors said.

Duran and Arias were each being held in lieu of $250,000 bond following arraignment.

Duran boasted to investigators that she had more than $1 million in assets in the Dominican Republic and needed armed guards to escort her throughout the country.

She and her son owned the defunct Club Kalua, where Bell was fatally shot in 2006 by cops probing reports of prostitution.


Photo from 1010WINS

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe if they get lucky,the city will name streets after these criminals.

Anonymous said...

now let me guess? Acorn,fannie mae and freddie mac are also involved in the real estate scam?

which local politicians are linked to the dominican republic?

Phyllis said...

let ME quess - LAWYERS involved in this one - family court ones too . . . .

Anonymous said...

now let me guess? Acorn,fannie mae and freddie mac are also involved in the real estate scam?

which local politicians are linked to the dominican republic?

What?
First of all use grammar correctly.
No word is capitalized and you scream Acorn.
Sounds real ignorant as well as agenda ridden.

Anonymous said...

please explain to me how a block of NON CITIZEN illegal aliens can access so many benefits and goodies from the US Government. ie Dominicans. is it the drug/prostitution/trafficking/loan shark/unlicensed gun rackets?

Anonymous said...

She's a scanmmer and shold be deporte after she does her jail time