On Monday authorities arrested a Queens, New York woman on a string of charges related to allegedly scamming the federal government out of disaster relief funds intended for real victims of Superstorm Sandy.
The alleged fraudster, Caterina Curatolo, has amassed a laundry list of criminal charges, including grand larceny, insurance fraud, scheme to defraud, multiple counts of offering a false instrument for filing, and falsifying business records. In total, investigators believe she claimed $87,000 in benefits to which she was not entitled by posing as a victim of the most destructive storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
Prosecutors say that Curatolo claimed Sandy had badly damaged her property, leaving her utterly destitute, when in fact her primary residence fell into disrepair long before the storm. It also bears mention that she owned another home next to the supposedly inhabitable property.
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