The Post reports that the Upper West Side woman accused of running a multi-millionaire consumer fraud scam is worth at least $100 million, "with $6.5 million of it liquid." Federal prosecutors, who say Dina Wein-Reis would buy discounted products from Fortune 500, claiming they would be given away to the needy but actually sold them to retailers for big profits, think she's a flight risk, given her art collection worth $35 million, seven homes, "dozens of bank accounts and a missing, expiring passport." However, the judge allowed her family to post $10 million bail for Wein-Reis: Her husband had begged the judge to let her go, because their "three boys... are falling apart by the day" and a Whitney Museum curator said, "I have always regarded Dina as a person who cared about others." It's unclear if the feds had testimony from her former employees, one of whom claims she "treated people like crap."
Published Nov 6, 2008
Modified Nov 6, 2008
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