Williams
NEW CITY – A Thiells man has been sentenced to one year in the Rockland County Jail on his guilty plea to criminal possession of a forged instrument as a misdemeanor.
On January 6, 2016, Ya’el Williams, 55, passed $480 in counterfeit $20 bills to purchase a Netspend money card at a Walgreens store in Spring Valley.
Until recently, he was executive director of Helping Hands for the Homeless of Rockland, a Spring-Valley based non-profit organization that operates the county’s 75-bed shelter at Building D of the Robert L. Yeager Health Complex in Pomona.
At the sentencing, Williams acknowledged he knew the money was fake when he made the purchase.
