A former Suffolk County lawmaker and the owners of a Soho S&M club were among five people Suffolk County prosecutors accuse of running a $50 million mortgage scam. Suffolk DA Thomas Spota, after detailing how the group allegedly bought homes with fake buyers taking out huge mortgages (with forged documents), pocketed the money and then left the homes empty, said, "The damage these defendants single-handedly caused to the East End is simply appalling." more ›