A New York man is accused of falsifying a deed to a Bergen County property and then taking out over $600,000 in loans against it, Bergen County prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
David M. Greenspan, 47, of Monsey, New York, is charged with second-degree counts of theft by deception and identity theft, and third-degree counts of forgery, forgery by uttering and tampering with public records. <\/p>\n
Authorities in Bergenfield began investigating after receiving a tip about deed fraud in January 2025 regarding a property in town, officials said. <\/p>\n
A year-long investigation discovered that Greenspan forged a signature on a deed, had it notarized and submitted it to the borough to transfer ownership of the property from a dead person, officials said. <\/p>\n
The property was valued at $306,000 and Greenspan is accused of racking up $323,000 in loans against the property. <\/p>\n
In total, prosecutors say Greenspan fraudulently obtained $629,000 in assets after accounting for the house and the loans.<\/p>\n
A Teaneck man was also charged in the scheme with fourth-degree false swearing after investigators said he notarized a deed without affirming the presence of a signer and failed to follow strict public notary laws. <\/p>\n
Greenspan was arrested on Jan. 13 and appeared in court the next day. He was released pending further court appearances. <\/p>\n
Greenspan\u2019s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York man is accused of falsifying a deed to a Bergen County property and then taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-109343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}