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Former Judge David Gross of Long Island, NY; money launderer, crook

 
While sitting on the bench in Long Island Judge David Gross was charged with the following criminal conduct.
 
Dave was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with participating in a money laundering and fencing scheme with a suspected organized (Mafia) crime associate.
 
Dave helped an undercover FBI agent posing as a stolen diamond trafficker unload merchandise as well as launder about $130,000 in illicit funds.
 
Dave explained to the agent several means of laundering money, including through his campaign fund. “The whole point is to make it look legitimate,” he told the FBI agent.
 
Dave came under FBI scrutiny during an investigation of illegal gambling clubs owned by three men believed to be associates of the Genovese crime family – Nicholas Gruttadauria, Ronald Pecoraro and Joseph Rutigliano.
 
The undercover FBI agent first met Dave during a dinner meeting in Jan. 2005 at which Gruttadauria and Pecoraro were present. Later that month, and after the agent showed Gruttadauria a packet of 19 loose diamonds he said were “untraceable,” Gruttadauria contacted Dave.
 
Dave offered to help unload the diamonds in exchange for a $500 finder’s fee (cheap whore). Dave also told the FBI agent of other crimes he was involved in, including the distribution of untaxed cigarettes and the evasion of gasoline excise taxes. Dave then told the agent he could launder money from the sale of his diamonds. He told the agent he could pose as a campaign fund-raiser, and deposit the money in Dave’s re-election fund. Dave would then write checks to the agent from the fund for his service as a fundraiser.
 
Dave the Book Author
 
Dave self-published a book about his experiences as a judge titled, “If the Robe Fits …: A View from the Bench.” Maybe it should have been titled, “If the Payoff Fits … A View of an Honest Judge.” In one passage in the book, Dave describes arraigning a reputed mob hit man on a traffic charge.
 
According to the criminal complaint, Dave insisted at a meeting in early August on giving a signed copy of the book to the FBI agent “as thanks for the fees he had obtained during the money laundering operation.”
 
As Dave retrieved the book from his car, the agent noticed $40,000 stored in the trunk. Dave then reassured the agent the car was safe, saying that the judge’s license plate meant the car would probably not be pulled over by the police. Oh really?
 
Gross Demand for Judicial Paycheck
 
Not satisfied with the extra-judicial income he was earning working with his mob-connected friends, Dave’s lawyer, John Carman, wrote a letter to the Court of Appeals asking that his $122,700 salary not be cut off because it was his family’s only income.
 
Carman said Dave has two children and that his wife, Jennifer, doesn’t have a job. “Judges aren’t permitted to pursue employment outside of their responsibilities as judges,” Carman said. 
 
Goshes and Gollies, it almost makes you want to cry, doesn’t it?
 
Subsequently Dave was removed from the bench and he was disbarred.
 
 

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