The New Jersey Attorney General's Office said that under the plea agreement, signed quietly in late January, Kwasnik will repay the estate of the Cherry Hill woman, who died sometime after he was indicted on Nov. 7, 2011.
Kwasnik remains the focus of a federal criminal probe into the scheme that authorities say was used to bilk dozens of elderly victims.
"The plea agreement does not in any way affect any potential criminal charges that would be filed in connection with the Ponzi scheme," said Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa.
Kwasnik is scheduled for sentencing May 10 before Superior Court Judge Irvin J. Snyder. He will serve no time beyond the five months he spent in the Camden County Jail after his arrest. He agreed to repay the estate by the end of his up-to-five-year probationary period, the Attorney General's Office said.
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4 comments:
I am glad he has to repay the estate and a plea deal does save the taxpayers the cost of a trial.
But, jailtime must go along with this. I am hoping he gets jail with criminal charges I sense are on the way.
A non-lawyer couldn't get such a plea deal.
No mercy prison sentence. How many others were bilked? but the statute of limitations went poof?
They're not through with this guy!
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