Manhattan DA: Northport man bilked victim, 91, out of $8.5M from real estate

A Northport male was sentenced to jail Tuesday for employing a 91-calendar year-aged man’s serious estate qualities to bilk him out of $8.5 million and choose “gain of an elderly sufferer in get to line his personal pockets,” Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg said.

Lyndon Chin, 58, who was acting as a true estate broker at the time of the alleged crimes, pleaded guilty to two counts of 1st-diploma grand larceny and was sentenced to 1 to 3 years, prosecutors in Braggs’ office claimed in a news launch.

Chin had previously assisted the man with the order and sale of industrial and residential true estate and developed a information of the victim’s properties, prosecutors stated.

In Oct 2015, the Northport resident utilised his understanding of the man’s real estate holdings to falsify organization documents and get $5 million in mortgage loans on four properties owned by the sufferer in decrease Manhattan, in accordance to prosecutors, who did not disclose the spot of all those houses. 

Chin also opened a bank account under the man’s corporation and deposited about $4.4 million of the cash, prosecutors mentioned. A substantial section of the funds was utilised to pay back at least 20 individual and company bank accounts that belonged to Chin’s relatives, prosecutors explained. He used the relaxation to pay off personal charges including auto and insurance plan payments, alongside with jewelry, in accordance to the launch.

Involving March and May well of 2016, Chin secured another $3.5 million in property finance loan financial loans utilizing the victim’s real estate holdings to falsify documents, prosecutors mentioned. Of that, Chin deposited $1.9 million in another bank account, in accordance to prosecutors.

After the target was rejected for a house loan personal loan on an unrelated business chance since of present mortgages, Manhattan prosecutors mentioned, the issue was referred to Bragg’s office. Officers did not say how they ended up alerted to the fraudulent actions.

“Mr. Chin blatantly took benefit of an elderly victim in purchase to line his own pockets,” Bragg explained in the launch. “The [unfortunate] fact is that these forms of cases are all much too familiar towards seniors, who are frequently viewed as easier targets for fraud. … Our older New Yorkers should have to have their hard-attained price savings safeguarded, and we will continue on to crack down on these strategies in any sort they get.”