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Lawyer: Parente owed me hundreds of thousands

New York State attorney general's office investigators are probing a complaint from a Queens lawyer who says he invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with William M. Parente and then tried to get his money back in recent weeks, only to have the checks bounce.

Parente promised to pay back nearly $450,000 to Bruce Montague, 47, a Bayside attorney, but Montague said the checks bounced Tuesday...

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