Kevie is BAAACCCCK!
Adoption fraud faces 92 years
LONG ISLAND
01 November 2010 08:26
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Kevin Cohen.
A Roslyn attorney who swindled $300,000 from 13 would-be adoptive parents through lies about nonexistent babies and counterfeit documents was convicted yesterday in Nassau County Supreme Court. Kevin Cohen, 42, who headed the duplicitous Adoption Annex agency, faces up to 92 years when sentenced next month for a litany of grand larceny, fraud, and forgery charges.
“These were all good people who were hoping to adopt a child and Kevin Cohen preyed upon that,” said Brigid Vogt, a Seaford victim who watched the jury find Cohen guilty of all 37 counts.
Cohen, who represented himself during the three week jury trial, claimed to know a young, unmarried mother who wanted to put her newborn up for adoption. Offering his legal and intermediary services, he scammed the victims, some of whom traveled from other states to be closer to the alleged expectant mother and collected money from other relatives. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said Cohen inflicted “pain and torment ... on kind and generous couples looking to provide a child with a loving home.”
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