DiSalvo
WHITE PLAINS – A State of Florida man faces a 40-count indictment
related to a scheme to defraud and grand larceny involving a trash hauling
business.
In November 2015, A.T.N.M. Corp. of Briarcliff Manor, New York, and Christopher
C. Leggio and Christopher E. Leggio, both of Brewster, and Stephen DiSalvo
of Ormond Beach, Florida, were charged in Briarcliff Manor Village Court
concerning the company’s business.
The Westchester County district Attorney’s Office alleged that between
2013 and 2015 A.T.N.M., a licensed solid waste hauler in Westchester,
while owned and operated by the three men, systematically altered several
hundred dump tickets so as to fraudulently reflect a higher tonnage of
solid waste being transported.
The fake dump tickets, attached to company invoices, were submitted to
a solid waste hauling broker for payment. As a result of the scam, the
broker relied on the fraudulently altered dump tickets and paid over $1
million to the men.
It was also revealed that Leggio, Leggio and DiSalvo stole from several
A.T.N.M. customers since January 2010 and that DiSalvo participated in
falsifying, forging and altering over 3,000 dump tickets issued from at
least six difference weigh stations in and around Westchester, leading
to the larceny of over $2 million from some 20 victims.
Since then, Christopher E. Leggio, 21, pled guilty to scheme to defraud
and faces up to one year in jail when he is sentenced. Christopher C.
Leggio, 57, pled guilty to grand larceny and faces up to eight and one-third
to 25 years in state prison. Christopher C. Leggio, on behalf of the company,
also pled guilty to grand larceny.
On Friday, DiSalvo was arraigned on an indictment charging him with 40
counts of various fraud and theft-related offenses. He was remanded on
$50,000 bail.
In 2000, DiSalvo was convicted of grand larceny and lost his Westchester
County solid waste hauling license in 2003 when he was operating A&S
Carting of Briarcliff Manor.
Because of his prior conviction, if found guilty, he faces a minimum of
4 ½ to nine years, to 12 ½ to 25 years in prison.
