The Manhattan District attorney called the crime and the video chilling, and said it captured every subway rider’s worst nightmare. But he also said it’s important to remember that something like this is rare.
“These New Yorkers sought legal services from Mr. Moreno in order to apply for permanent residency in the place they already call home. Instead, he took their fees and placed them in situations that put them at risk of deportation,” said District Attorney Bragg.
“As alleged, O.E.D. wreaked havoc on our streets,” said District Attorney Bragg. “This carefully structured criminal enterprise developed elaborate schemes to carry out robberies and violence, including tracking their victims before premeditated attacks. Today we have made New Yorkers safer by taking major violence drivers off the street, but we know we have much more work to do.”
“Today our neighborhoods are safer,” Bragg said. “We will continue to work together to…focus on the small number of violence drivers who account for so much of the carnage we see on our streets.”
Ricardo Cruciani was known as a gifted neurologist. But Manhattan prosecutors said he took advantage of his patients’ chronic pain.
