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DA Indicts 3 For Downtown Armed Smoke Shop Robs 
Indictments were handed down Tuesday to a trio of men who authorities say were involved in four armed robberies of smoke shops in the West Village, Chelsea and Union Square.
Construction firm indicted for MWBE fraud
JM3 allegedly used minority subcontractors as cover for cheap labor. Drywall wasn’t the only cover that one construction firm was putting up, Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday.
Construction fraud scheme faked ties to minority, women-owned businesses
Eight people and six companies have been charged in a series of indictments with pervasive fraud and corruption in the construction industry, motivated by “greed at all costs," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. said Tuesday while announcing the indictments.
Six NYC construction companies cheated minority businesses out of contracts, DA says
Six corrupt Manhattan construction companies and eight executives were charged Tuesday in a lucrative scheme in which city and state contracts were diverted from deserving businesses owned by minorities and women. “The common factor in all of these schemes is simple — greed at all costs,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in announcing the charges of pervasive fraud and corruption at a news conference. “When the field is rigged, law-abiding companies and legitimate minority and women-owned businesses are cheated out of much-needed contracts,” he added.
‘Greed At All Costs’: 14 Charged In NYC Construction Corruption Scheme
Fraud, bribes, business stolen from women- and minority-owned companies — those are among the crimes outlined in six Manhattan indictments.
‘Greed at all costs’: Eight execs and six companies indicted over fraudulent construction schemes
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled on Tuesday the indictment of eight people and six companies in what he called a wide-ranging construction industry fraud scheme.
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