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Community service, probation in $82M fraud

Ethan Ellner was sentenced to 840 hours of

Photo credit: John Roca | Ethan Ellner was sentenced to 840 hours of community service and 5 years' probation for his role in the largest mortgage fraud scam in the history of Suffolk County. (Dec. 21, 2012)

A former attorney and a longtime friend of former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy was sentenced Friday to 840 hours of community service and 5 years of probation for his role in the largest mortgage fraud scam in county history.

Ethan Ellner, who had a law practice in Ronkonkoma, pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny and cooperated against the fraud's ringleaders, Manhattan publisher...

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