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Feds: Millionaire indicted in $90M fraud

A Glen Head millionaire who was a key figure in a congressional corruption scandal has been indicted in a new $90-million mortgage fraud case in Brooklyn federal court.

Thomas Kontogiannis and eight others are accused of using staged sales, straw buyers and inflated appraisals on two tracts of land in East New York and Queens to defraud Washington Mutual Bank and DLJ Capital, a Credit Suisse...

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