NYC Attorney Charged In Deed Theft Of Home Of Elderly Stroke Victim; Swindle Of Serviceperson's Home Sale Proceeds

In New York City, the Queens County District Attorney's office reports:

• Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown [Thursday] announced that a suspended Richmond Hill attorney and a licensed Queens Village real estate broker have been charged with selling the house out from under an elderly Jamaica, Queens, man who had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke and then repeatedly flipping the property to drive up the price. [...] The District Attorney identified the defendants as attorney N. Stephen Sukhdeo, 41, ... and [real estate broker] Mohammed M. Keita, 48.

They both are presently awaiting arraignment on charges of second degree grand larceny, second-degree forgery, first-degree falsifying business records and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. Attorney Sukhdeo is additionally charged with criminal possession of forged documents. If convicted, the defendants face up to fifteen years in prison.

In a separate criminal complaint filed against Sukhdeo, he is charged with participating with another real estate broker, Richard Persuad, in swindling almost $100,000 from an active duty serviceperson who was overseas at the time of the swindle in the sale of her home. Persaud, 36, was arrested on August 2, 2007, and is charged with second-degree grand larceny, first-degree falsifying business records and first-degree scheme to defraud.

For more, see Queens DA Press Release - Suspended Queens Attorney And Licensed Real Estate Broker Charged In Real Estate Fraud Schemes (Alleged Victims Include an Elderly Stroke Victim and U.S. Army Sergeant Serving Overseas).

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