Retired cop taking over mother's bar Former Schenectady officer wants to run site after lottery case By Lauren Stanforth Published 11:28 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, 2012
SCHENECTADY — A recently retired city cop is taking over Old Christy's Inn from his mother, the bar's proprietor, who has been charged with stealing $100,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets that she was licensed to sell.
John Digesualdo, who investigated homicides and other serious crimes for the Schenectady Police Department, has put in a request with the city Planning Commission to operate the bar on Lower Broadway in the wake of his mother's indictment.
Donna J. Walsh, a licensed lottery retailer, is accused of scanning an unknown amount of scratch-off tickets between May and June of last year to see if they were winners, said Katie McCutcheon, Schenectady County assistant district attorney. After they are read by a machine, the scratch-offs are voided so they cannot be sold. The New York State Lottery detected the alleged fraud when Walsh did not pay her bill, said Lottery General Counsel Bill Murray. Despite allegedly wracking up $100,000 in charges, Walsh is believed to have only won about $2,000.....................>>>>..................>>>>...............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....17.php#ixzz1rjXSpcv6
The son should 100% be allowed to operate the bar. He should also be required to pay back the 98K the bar owes, i mean, he is taking over a buisness that has a debt that needs to be repaid, no? If he can not pay it back, shut er down and let the bank sell the property, as per any other citizen with a buisness would have to do.
I don't spell check! Sorry... If you include "No offense" in a statement, chances are, your statement is offensive.
Lottery is a tax on the mathmatically challanged, is it not?
I've always known it to be the 'poor man's' tax. It would be cruel for the state to tax the poor directly, so the state gets them to pay another way - because they care.
State sues bar owner in lottery scam case Woman accused of transferring condo to delay payments BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
A Schenectady bar owner accused in criminal court of scamming the state Lottery out of an estimated $100,000 in lottery tickets is now being sued. At issue in the lawsuit is the transfer of a condominium once jointly owned by the bar owner and her son, to the son himself, that happened after she was notified of the state Lottery investigation but before her arrest in the case. The state filed suit against Donna Walsh, proprietor of Olde Christy’s Inn on Lower Broadway. The state is seeking a judgment against Walsh for the money it says it is owed. It is also seeking a declaration voiding the transfer of the property to her son. According to the lawsuit, the transfer of the condominium “was made in an ef- Share your fort to hinder and delay [the thoughts on state’s] efforts to collect” the this story at $103,000 owed. Walsh’s son John DiGesualdo, a retired city police detective, is also named related to the condominium transfer. He is not accused of any wrongdoing. Walsh and DiGesualdo had been listed as joint owners of the condo at Bigsbee Village in Rotterdam since purchasing it in 2008. On Aug. 2, 2011, the property was transferred from Walsh and DiGesualdo to DiGesualdo alone, according to the suit. By then, though, Walsh “knew, or should have known,” that she owed the lottery just over $103,000 in the alleged scam, according to the suit. She’d been notified June 28, 2011, that her Lottery license had been suspended. On July 14, 2011, of the Lottery sent her a notice and demand to pay the debt. Then on Aug. 25 she was arrested by the state police. Walsh, 64, was indicted in March on one count of second-degree grand larceny, a felony. She is free under probation supervision. Her criminal case remains pending. Walsh is accused of ordering thousands of tickets electronically over a period of 45 days in May and June of last year, then running them through a scanner, essentially scratching them electronically, the prosecutor in the criminal case has said. As a Lottery vendor, she essentially had a line of credit with the agency that last 45 days, the prosecutor has said. The lottery started investigating after her account came due. As a vendor, Walsh could redeem any winning tickets electronically with the winnings credited to her account, prosecutors said. Only Walsh has been accused of any wrongdoing. The state lawsuit alleges the condo transfer was made “without fair consideration or without any consideration.” As a result, Walsh was “rendered insolvent.” “The conveyance of the Bigsbee condominium from Walsh and DiGesualdo to DiGesualdo was made in an effort to hinder and delay [the state’s] efforts to collect” the $103,000 owed, the suit reads. ................................>>>>..........................>>>>.................................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01100&AppName=1
Walsh’s son John DiGesualdo, a retired city police detective, is also named related to the condominium transfer. He is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Of course, he knew nothing! What a great detective he must have been...First, he never knew Cheif Kaz was running drugs through the city, and never knew his mother was illegally cashing lottery tickets. AND, he didn't know what he was doing when transfering property out of his mothers name into his.
Of course, he knew nothing! What a great detective he must have been...First, he never knew Cheif Kaz was running drugs through the city, and never knew his mother was illegally cashing lottery tickets. AND, he didn't know what he was doing when transfering property out of his mothers name into his.
That's right Cicero...how could a former detective see through such a criminal tactic? I mean, maybe a reasonable person might not know, but a detective....who worked criminal investigations...has MANY years experience with such crimes?
Guess Union Reps have more than McCarthy in their pocket...they have the DA and State too.
Ex-officer's mom sued in condo case State says transfer came during Lottery probe By Lauren Stanforth Published 09:43 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012
SCHENECTADY — The state Attorney General's Office is suing the mother of former city cop John DiGesualdo, claiming DiGesualdo transferred her condo into his own name while she was being investigated in the theft of $103,143 from the state Lottery.
In the lawsuit filed May 15 in state Supreme Court, the state alleges DiGesualdo took over sole ownership of Donna J. Walsh's Rotterdam condominium on Aug. 2 — less than a month before the state demanded Walsh pay back the Lottery for an untold amount of scratch-off tickets she scanned at her bar, Old Christy's Inn on Lower Broadway.
On Aug. 25, State Police arrested Walsh on one count of second-degree grand larceny.
DiGesualdo, who retired in January, was still an investigator with the Schenectady police in August when transferred the two-bedroom, one bathroom condo assessed at $110,000.
The lawsuit states that the conveyance of the Bigsbee Village property to DiGesualdo was an effort to hinder the Lottery's efforts to collect the money from Walsh.
Walsh's attorney, Steven Kouray, said the state is presuming DiGesualdo took the condo to avoid paying back the Lottery, when in fact he took over full ownership of the residence off Curry Road for other reasons. DiGesualdo had been co-owner of the property with his mother. "There was some valuable consideration," said Kouray, confirming that Walsh is also experiencing health problems...........................>>>>...................>>>>....................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....66.php#ixzz1vsMWEgHp
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