DA: Disbarred Attorney Forged Judge’s Signature
Posted on Friday, 30 of October , 2009 at 5:22 pm
QUEENS—An attorney who was disbarred last June following a conviction for possession of a forged instrument in Suffolk County has now been charged with possessing the forged signature of a Queens Supreme Court Justice on a fake court order in an effort to hold on to $35,000 of a client’s money being held in an escrow fund.
Bryan J. Holzberg, 53, of 121 Reid Ave., in Port Washington was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument. He is currently serving a sentence of probation after pleading guilty to the same charge in a separate case in Suffolk County last December. He was disbarred on June 16. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.
Holzberg was given $35,000 to hold in an escrow account in connection with a real estate transaction. When the real estate transaction did not go forward the defendant was asked to return the funds to Abraham Gabbay and Nachmy Bronstein in their corporate status as House of Tsui Corporation. After repeated demands for the funds were ignored, according to the complaint, Gabbay met with Holzberg at a Brooklyn restaurant on Oct. 1 and he showed Gabbay a copy of a purported Order To Show Cause signed and stamped by the Honorable Charles J. Markey of the Queens Supreme Court which refused the requested order that would release the money held in escrow.
When detectives showed a copy of the purported order to Judge Markey he told them that he did not create or sign the order or authorize anyone else to issue it. 10-30-09
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