March 30, 2008
NJ Police Arrest 9/11 "Hero" for Theft
New Jersey resident Fred Parisi was arrested at his fund-raiser for 9/11 workers last night, after accusations he stole money from another business. Now authorities are concerned Parisi's 9/11 fund-raising is lining his own pockets.
Police say Parisi had started a woodworking business with partner Roy Jensen but put company money into accounts Jensen couldn't access. And now police are questioning Parisi's non-profit 9/11 Rescue Workers Foundation--Detective Joe Kratzel told the Star-Ledger that Parisi "took full advantage of" Jensen, "I have serious doubts about any foundation Fred Parisi is running and I have questions about where that money is going."
Parisi has claimed he was a NYPD cop who helped rescue activities at the World Trade Center. But Parisi, a police academy cadet, was at Floyd Bennett Field for driving training on September 11 and was assigned to traffic duty in Murray Hill on September 12 and 13. The Daily News reports Parisi joined the academy on July 1, 2001 and dropped out (or was dismissed) four months later. Further, Parisi never mentioned "disciplinary problems in the military and resignations from two other police departments, as well as an arrest for impersonating an officer."
Parisi is being held on $100,000 bail. Lying about being a 9/11 survivor is nothing new: One woman who headed the Survivors Network and claimed she escaped from the WTC, was revealed to be a fake.
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Fred Parisi tried to sell his so called "cabinet business" to many families in Kinnelon, NJ, with lots of false promises and absolutely no work on his part. Just collecting deposits and taking off with the money. Spending it on trips to NY Yankees spring training camp visits with his kid. Luckily, his innocent partner, finished the jobs and ended up being one of the victims in all of this. Telling people his sad BS story of being an injured 9/11 cop was only the tip of the iceberg. There were stories of his wife being terminally ill with breat cancer and not being able to work (she is healthy as a horse) and wanting to send his kids to expensive private schools and take them on nice vacations. His aging mother and non-working wife were all in on his scams too !!! You name it and this guy had the story to collect more deposit checks. No surprise that he set up his 9/11 foundation, right down the road in Kinnelon at a local UPS store. Many of the people he was trying to scam for the "custom cabinetry business" and collect deposit checks, had loved ones who perished in 9/11 and he capitalized on this. Fred Parisi is a con man and he has finally been exposed. Justice has finally been served !!! Hopefully his cell mate in prison will not fall for all of his lies and stories about his job history as a policeman (dishonorably discharged) or a repo man at a compnay called Auto Task Force. Don't feel sorry for his family. They live in a nicely decorated house with a not so great kitchen in NJ suburbia. Do his kids wonder why their dad never left home in the morning for a 9 to 5 job and put in a full days' work ?? Maybe now his wife can get a real job as a "decorator", as she portrayed herself to scam more people. It's a family of losers. Will they sell their house in Jefferson and sneak out of town to move to Florida now and start a whole new scam there ?? Who knows......