About one in every five Staten Island residents has a prescription for oxycodone, and apparently they don't even have to be alive. Vincent and Taina Iacuzzi of New Springville, Staten Island were arrested for forging prescriptions for oxycodone and Xanax under the name of Taina's mother, Mary Kelly...who died on March 14th. Dr. Dominic Pompa told the Staten Island Advance, "I don’t know how anybody could come into an office with your mother dead two weeks and ask for a script. Now I’ve seen everything." more ›

It's been a pleasantly long time since we last heard of New Jersey's Real Housewife Teresa Guidice, who in June was coping with her newly declared bankruptcy. Now the NY Post reports that the tantrum-throwing reality starlet was back in court yesterday claiming that her husband forged her name on mortgages and other documents, and that she was blissfully unaware of their financial woes. She was in front of the judge not because her husband Joe forged her name, however, but because he forged the name of an employee, a notary, and of his ex-business partner, who is suing him. more ›

Those Brooklyn Census workers really don't want to lose their jobs. After being instructed to redo more than 4,000 falsified Census forms, workers at the Brooklyn Northeast Census office botched the corrections and must complete the forms a third time. more ›

Getting fired was just the tip of the iceberg. The two Brooklyn managers accused of forging thousands of census forms could be facing criminal charges. Alvin Aviles and assistant Sonya Merritt were fired last month after using the internet and phone books to forge over 4,000 census forms (though over 10,000 are in question). But Aviles says he was set up, telling the Daily News, "I was falsely accused of specific fraudulent behavior and in time the real culprits will be shed to light." more ›

Queens resident Ellen Lee has pleaded guilty to forging signatures and falsifying information on over 170 liquor license applications, and faces up to four years in prison. Lee was hired by immigrants who were looking to open bars and needed help with State Liquor Authority paperwork. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. told the Daily News, "False documents like the ones filed by the defendant lead directly to the establishment of bars in areas where they do not belong." It's unclear where exactly these bars were established, because according to some, bars don't belong anywhere in this city. more ›

House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Ed Towns (D-Brooklyn) was apparently appalled by news of two census workers forging almost 10,000 questionnaires just outside of his district, and is starting a probe into the incident. Spokeswoman Jenny Rosenberg told the Daily News, "The chairman said he is deeply concerned about the reports and he intends to hold a hearing in Brooklyn on this soon to get to the bottom of this matter." more ›

Over 20 students at Manhattan Middle School just took the state English exams earlier this month after spending an entire year without an English teacher. The school claims they didn't have an English teacher on staff, and forged report cards saying teacher Mildred Taylor had graded them for English. Originally, Taylor had been hired to teach Humanities, but the school assigned her to teach English since they had no one else. She told NBC New York, "I grieved it and my union said I didn't have to teach it." The school then began using her Humanities grades as English grades. more ›

Former Cardinal Hayes High School principal Christopher Keogan, who resigned in 2008 after porn was found on his office computer, has been indicted by a Bronx jury for allegedly stealing $50,000 from his former school. He was charged with grand larceny and multiple forgery, and faces up to seven years in prison. Keogan allegedly falsely endorsed four money orders that the school received in summer school tuition in 2007, and was also charged with using a credit card issued to a nonprofit to buy over $3,000 in personal goods while he was principal. Staff at the school say Keogan was caught on surveillance cameras rummaging through desks in the financial office when the money was stolen. more ›

Henry Vargas has admitted to attempting to sell a building he didn't own to the running group New York Road Runners. MyFoxNY reports that Vargas pleaded guilty at the Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday to attempted grand larceny and forgery, which calls for a 5-10 year prison term. more ›

A Pakistani deli worker in Staten Island is accused of trying to buy the identity of a dead child from the boy's mother. Rizwan Ahmed, 24, allegedly promised to pay $10,000 to obtain a birth certificate and social security card that belonged to Michael Keller, an 8-year-old who died of respiratory arrest in 1996. But he was busted when he tried to get a state ID under the new name. more ›

The son of a Harlem landlord is accused scamming potential buyers by trying to sell a building he did not own. The commercial property, located on a triangular lot just north of Central Park at 21-41 Lenox Avenue, was entirely owned by another man. But alleged grifter Henry Vargas told buyers the man, Manuel Duran Jr., was just an elderly farmer from the Dominican Republic whose share was only 10 percent. more ›

The Pepto pink palatial palace on Garfield Place is now off the market! That's not because it sold, either — the Brooklyn Paper reports that 92-year-old owner Bernie Henry's grandson is now "under investigation for forging key documents that have put a cloud over who has legal ownership of the building." Yikes! Some neighbors may be pleased to see the house stay pink for longer — one told the paper, “At first, you hate it because it’s new. But then you come to love it. And then you don’t want it to ever change.” more ›

Deed fraud is in alive and well in the city. Late Friday, the Real Deal reported that a woman posing as the rightful owner of three Upper East Side buildings obtained deeds for them and tried to get tenants to send her their rent checks. And today the Post adds the tabloid detail—she's a "former exotic dancer with a body for sin and maybe a brain for it." more ›

DOS police lieutenant John Fitzgerald is a 24-year vet who's better known as the guy who ended up carrying Naomi Campbell's bag when she reported for day two of her community service last year. And now he's stepping out of the model's shadow. more ›

'Tis the season to...steal from your workplace? The NY Sun reports that the Manhattan district attorney's office is prosecuting a case against a Bloomingdale's employee who created bogus gift cards.

The complaint says Jennifer Ng, a 22-year-old Queens resident, cheated the East Side store out of $34,515 during the nearly month-long scam. more ›

The Department of Education is charging a temp with stealing $50,000 in fake overtime. The tip off? When Tyrone Avila would claim he was working 85 hours a week - when he really supposed to work less than 40 hours a week. The Daily News reports that Avila had been temping as budget analyst for the DOE since 2001, but "he didn't start padding his time sheets until 2005 when his mother-in-law developed mental problems... more ›