Cops caught wind of the fraud when members of the NYPD’s intelligence bureau noticed that members of the Canarsie-based Woo gang were making trips to California, renting houses, buying expensive cars and posing on social media with stacks of cash at the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
Eleven members and associates of the Brooklyn-based Woo gang were charged in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud the unemployment insurance program funded with COVID-19 relief.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022:. A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Romean Brown, Tyrek Clarke, Kennith Desir, Stephan Dorminvil, Kai Heyward, Keith James, Oneal Marks, Jahriah Olivierre, Christopher Jean Pierre, Roleeke Smith and.