Six years after guilty plea, man who scammed the IRS and the dead is sentenced
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ALBANY – The scheme was ghoulish and nefarious.
In 2011, Joseph Carbonara, a man with a half-dozen low-level offenses on his record, played a key role in a criminal conspiracy to trick the federal government into sending out tax return checks to the dead. He paid co-conspirators to deposit the money in bank accounts in Schenectady in the name of the deceased. He later pocketed much of the loot.
The scheme lasted into 2012, but Carbonara, a native Long Islander who relocated to the Capital Region, ultimately pleaded guilty in January 2014.