Suspect Forged POA To Swipe $360K Of Mother-In-Law's Home Equity, Says Queens DA

(original post 2-3-08)
In New York City, the Queens County District Attorney's Office announces:

• Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown [Friday] announced that an international businessman who resides in Manhattan has been charged with using a forged power of attorney to unlawfully obtain a $360,000 mortgage on his mother-in-law’s condominium in the Little Neck section of Queens. [...] [T]he defendant is accused of perpetrating an elaborate scheme to drain the equity from his mother-law’s Queens condo – allegedly going so far as duping her to believing he knew someone in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who could help her when she became aware of the mortgage swindle.

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• The District Attorney identified the defendant as Shih Siang Shawn Liao, 31, of [...] Manhattan. [...] Liao, [...] was arraigned [...] on charges of second-degree grand larceny, second-degree criminal possession of stolen property, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, first-degree identity theft, first degree falsifying business records and third-degree unlawful possession of personal identification information.

For more, see the Queens DA news release: Manhattan Man Charged With Stealing $360,000 By Surreptitiously Taking Out Mortgage On mother-In-Law's Queens Condo (Faces Up To 15 Years In Prison).

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