Malta man sentenced for stealing $141K in unemployment benefits
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Exterior of the New York State Department of Labor offices on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
SCHENECTADY - A Saratoga County man who stole more than $141,000 in unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic was sentenced to 20 to 60 months behind bars after pleading guilty to felony grand larceny, according to the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office.
The joint investigation was prosecuted by Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney’s office because the fraud by Mathew R. Baldwin of Malta was committed using accounts located in the county. State Police had said Baldwin was using stolen identities to certify state unemployment insurance benefits.
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Kevin Fessette, 29, was convicted in April of one count of first-degree criminal sexual act. The jury returned the guilty verdict then after approximately 30 minutes of deliberations
The trial, which began Monday and concluded Thursday, marked the first in Schenectady County since November and only the second since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state recently allowed trials to resume again.
Judge Matthew Sypniewski then imposed the maximum term Thursday.
Fessette was originally arrested in 2019, after the child first disclosed the sexual assault.
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Jennifer Dolezsar, 49, of Pattersonville, pleaded guilty earlier to one count of second-degree grand larceny, a felony.
Judge Matthew Sypniewski then sentenced her Tuesday to two to six years in state prison, in accordance with her plea agreement, prosecutors said. The judge also ordered her to pay full restitution to the victim.
Dolezsar admitted to embezzling the money from her employer Veterinary Specialties Referral Center in Pattersonville, over the course of multiple years, prosecutors said.
She admitted to specifically taking the cash receipts received by the clinic and then falsifying the daily reports sent to the business’ accountant to cover up her theft, prosecutors said.
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SCHENECTADY – Alma Hurwitz’s family tried to keep her safe. They even tried to get the 94-year-old an aide, daughter Robin Inwald recalled in Schenectady County Court Tuesday.
But Hurwitz, a trained scientist, was fiercely independent. She even continued to handle her own finances, something she enjoyed doing. That was, Inwald said in court, “until you came along.”
Inwald spoke of Craig Kearsing, the now-admitted scam artist who preyed on at least three elderly victims in Schenectady and Niskayuna in 2019 for thousands of dollars in bogus home work.