LONG BEACH, NY. — A Long Beach man had his bail bond amount increased to $350,000 and was ordered to enter gambling addiction treatment Tuesday, court filings show. The orders came after January and February filings, which the prosecution said showed him gambling at multiple casinos while under an order to pay restitution of $2.6 million for unpaid taxes.
Long Beach resident Alex Kleiman pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge in December of 2024, signing a plea agreement that obligated him to repay $2.621 million in unpaid taxes, prosecutors said.
Patch made multiple attempts to reach Kleiman’s attorney Mark Lesko for comment Wendesday.
Kleiman’s plea agreement came after he admitted to underpaying his taxes on almost $8 million in earnings over a three year period between 2018 and 2021 the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a January letter to the judge presiding over the case. The prosecutors also said that he had admitted in a plea agreement to underreporting his income in 2016 and 2017.
The earnings, prosecutors said, came in while Kleiman was CFO of a medical supply company.
In total, the prosecution said Kleiman had stipulated that he owed over $2.9 million in restitution payments for those 2016-2021 tax years, of which he had paid about $300,000.
In the same letter, the prosecution said it had subpoenaed Mohegan Sun casino and found that Kleiman had been to the casino multiple times, cashing in with $3.89 million and cashing out with $4.387 million. In one three-week span between November and December of 2025, the prosecution said, Kleiman bet over $4.5 million on table games at Mohegan.
A subsequent filing by the prosecution included surveillance footage of Kleiman taking a bag full of about $400,000 in cash to the counter at Ocean Resort Casino on Jan. 22, 2025, just one month after he had entered a guilty plea, prosecutors said.
In that filing, the prosecution said that Kleiman had wagered almost $2.4 million total in 2024, and lost an additional $650,000 in 2025.
This gambling activity, the prosecution said in its filing, made a sworn financial statement that Kleiman had submitted incomplete. It also contradicted a claim the prosecution attributed to Kleiman, in which he said he had stopped gambling, “cold turkey.”
Lesko told Newsday Tuesday that Kleiman had a severe gambling addiction that had been the root cause of his failure to pay taxes, and had suffered a serious relapse during the gambling incidents in question.
The prosecution, however, said that Kleiman’s diagnosis had not derailed his career, noting that the company he worked for had grown to a sales volume of $60 million and a workforce of 50 employees during Kleiman’s tenure.
The prosecution said that Kleiman’s gambling while under investigation demonstrated a “lack of respect for the seriousness” of the case he’s currently involved in, despite previous court filings saying that Kleiman was “fully committed” to paying back the money that he owed, and that doing so was, “not optional to [him]. It is a priority.”
In the 13 months since entering a guilty plea in court, prosecutors said Kleiman had not paid back a dollar of his $2.9 million restitution, but had been able to access multi-million dollar sums to go gambling.
In light of those revelations, Judge Nusrat Choudhury ordered the increase in bond amount from $100,000 to $350,000 and the inpatient gambling treatment Tuesday.