Four “fraudster” real-estate agents — including one with a penchant for trashy leopard-print boots — falsified records and forged signatures to illegally take over the deeds of the homes in Kew Gardens Hills and Queens Village and resell them for a hefty sum, a heartless scheme that got the crooks convicted. Prosecutors said Valeri, a flashy 42-year-old boot-loving scammer, and the other property thieves faked official documents and forged signatures to steal two homes valued at a total of more than $3 million, with one belonging to a 76-year-old woman and the other to a 79-year-old woman. For the other two sales, the DA’s Housing and Worker Protection Bureau, formed in 2020, had to go to court to have the deeds that had already been transferred voided.
Author: Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published at: 2026-02-03 22:53:45
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