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BROOKLYN-Three Brooklyn men have been indicted on charges of stealing the home of an elderly Brooklyn woman while she was dying of cancer.
The trio is charged with forging documents to give defendant Russell Pitt power of attorney over a building owned by the woman at 39 Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The indictment charges that in September 2004, Nathan Farkas and Pitt sold the home to Winston Roche, 59. However, Roche was allegedly involved in the criminal conspiracy, and he and the other defendants divided the $476,000 mortgage. The woman died in 2005.
Prosecutors said that one defendant, Jerry Brauner, 53, who notarized the power of attorney, is charged with falsifying a notary public renewal application, in which he denied that he was a convicted felon.
At their arraignments, Farkas, 31, and Brauner were held in lieu of $85,000 bail. Roche's bail was set at $45,000. Pitt remains at large.
Brauner is charged with first degree offering a false instrument.. Charges against Farkas, Roche and Pitt include second degree grand larceny, fourth degree conspiracy and second degree forgery. 12-30-06
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