A disgraced former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice and a shady real estate developer scammed investors in a $6.5 million scheme and pocketed nearly all the cash, federal prosecutors claim.
Ex-Judge Edward Harold King, who was forced to resign earlier this year amid a slew of fraud claims, set up a phony escrow account in cahoots with developer Sam Sprei to bilk two investors out millions of dollars tied to bankrupt property in New Jersey, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
King and Sprei allegedly reneged on the deal when the investors tried to pull out — and only got a fraction of the money they had plunked down, according to the feds.
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