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An entrepreneur from the Hudson Valley has been accused by federal authorities of defrauding investors of nearly $1 million.
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI announced that Joseph Cimino, the founder of an Orange County-based tequila company, was arrested Tuesday morning, Feb. 17, and charged with securities fraud and wire fraud arising out of his fraudulent solicitation of investments for the company.
Cimino is scheduled to appear in White Plains Federal Court Tuesday afternoon.
“Joseph Cimino allegedly raised nearly $1 million in investor funds for his startup tequila company by lying about the company’s finances, and then spent a significant portion of that money to finance his own lifestyle, Strauss said. Now Cimino faces the sobering reality of federal securities an
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