UPDATE: Standup comedian and South Hackensack Municipal Court Judge Vincenzo “Vince August” Sicari found the New Jersey Supreme Court an unforgiving audience: It ruled he can no longer ride both the bench and nightclub crowds.

“Vince Sicari, the lawyer, may be free to pursue a parallel career as an actor and comedian,” the state’s highest court ruled. “Once he chose also to serve as a municipal court judge, however, he became subject to the Code of Judicial Conduct.”

The justices pointed to interviews with Sicari that were published in the Bergen Record as proof that he couldn’t ethically separate both vocations.

The Advisory Committee on Extrajudicial Activities initially put a warning label on Sicari’s standup activities in 2010. It was no gag, either: The committee found that his material could imply bias and a lack of impartiality.

Sicari — whose name in Italian means “hit man” — nonetheless met his commitment for a three-show gig at Caroline’s after the decision while waiting for a booking with the state’s highest court.

He couldn’t beat it with his shtick, though.

His moonlighting bid essentially closed out of town — in Trenton, where the justices found that bits about refusing to serve interracial couples or AIDS patients don’t meet judicial standards and practices.

“The Court cannot ignore the distinct possibility that a person who has heard a routine founded on humor disparaging certain ethnic groups and religions will not be able to readily accept that the judge before whom he or she appears can maintain the objectivity and impartiality that must govern all municipal court proceedings,” the Supremes added.

Sicari, who was also a prosecutor and has done mostly criminal defense work solo — first in Ridgewood and then Paramus — has played several clubs. He’s also been in commercials, warmed up audiences at “The Colbert Report,” and produced the stand-up film “Vinsanity,” which won an award at a Los Angeles film festival several years back.

Yet it was his role in ABC’s “Primetime: What Would You Do?” — in which he portrayed a racist and homophobic character in a “Candid Camera”-type set-up — that turned Sicari’s moonlighting into an ethical issue.

South Hackensack officials knew about his nocturnal passion — same as those attorneys who play in bands or operate nightclubs or other businesses — when they appointed him to the part-time municipal judgeship in 2007.

“In his comedy, he doesn’t get into the fact that he’s a lawyer. He doesn’t get into the fact that he’s a municipal court judge,” defense attorney E. Drew Britcher, of Britcher, Leone & Roth in Glen Rock, told the New Jersey Law Journal. “Most of his performances are driven by improvisation and there is never a mention of his daytime profession.

“Judge Vincenzo Sicari and Vince August are two separate and distinct entities running parallel with one another,” Britcher said.

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A compact car collided with a Jeep in Westwood, sending it onto a pedestrian island, just before 3 p.m.

Westwood police and Hillsdale Ambulance responded to the crash at the intersection of Old Hook and Kinderkamack roads.

The Honda driver appeared injured, though not seriously. The passenger door and window of his car was smashed.

The Jeep, which apparently t-boned the compact car with its grill bars, sustained little apparent damage.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 33-year-old ex-con who was shot on a Paramus street last month led police on a chase with his motorcycle through several red lights last night before wiping out in Rochelle Park.

Ilkay Karayel was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center under police guard with injuries that Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said didn’t appear life-threatening.

The chase began just after 9:30 last night, when Paramus Police Officer Daniel Derienzo spotted Karayel’s beige 2009 Suzuki GSX swerving on Pascack Road northbound near Oradell Avenue, Ehrenberg said.

When the officer tried to stop him, Karayel accelerated, hitting high speeds on Farview Avenue, the chief said.

He ran several red lights before reaching the intersection of Rochelle Avenue (continuation of Farview Avenue)and Central Avenue in Rochelle Park, where he lost control of the motorcycle, Ehrenberg said.

“The [motorcycle] hit the curb on Rochelle Avenue near Terrace Avenue and left only a couple feet of skidmarks,” a witness told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The bike and the driver ended up a good 100 feet from there.

The cycle appeared totaled, he said.

“The rider somehow had all his limbs and was semi-consious when they took him away.”

Karayel, of Paramus, was charged with eluding police, DWI, reckless driving and driving while on the suspended list.

Last month, Karayel was shot by one of two men who pulled up to him on a motorcycle as he walked home along Pascack Road near Oradell Avenue. Both fled and Karayel ran several blocks to his Curry Lane home (SEE: Paramus drive-by shooting victim taken by relatives to hospital ER). The assailants were still at large.

As CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported exclusively following the Aug. 14 incident: Man shot in Paramus is career criminal who recently got out of jail.

Karayel’s criminal record includes drug charges in Fairview and Ridgefield Park, among other towns, as well as aggravated assault offenses on police and resisting arrest in River Edge.

The 5-foot-7-inch, 180-pound Karayel has served time for his crimes and recently spent more than two months in the Bergen County Jail before being sentenced in June on a DWI charge out of Fort Lee — while on probation for a previous conviction.

Records show the Queens-born Karayel has no fewer than a dozen adult convictions.

Most are in Bergen but three are in Ocean County, for drugs and assault. He served time as a result, records show.

Karayel apparently is still serving five years of probation after spending an undetermined amount of prison time for a Bergen County drug conviction in the late 2000s, the records indicate.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Norwood police cracked the case of a stolen safe — as well as another that a resident found pried open — with an assist in the arrests from their Fair Lawn colleagues.

Detectives issued a warrant for 19-year-old Vincent Bulzomi and his brother, Nicholas, 23, of Fair Lawn, after one resident reported his safe taken from his garage and another said hers was pried open — both last Monday, Norwood Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Both Bulzomis were picked up on Saturday by Fair Lawn Officer Joseph Mecionis near Pollitt Drive and turned over to Norwood police.

The safe was retrieved, Krapels said.

Vincent Bulzomi, who was charged with burglary and theft, was released on $11,000 bail from the Bergen County Jail this afternoon after nearly two days behind bars.

Nicholas Bulzomi was released on summons to answer possession of stolen property charges in Municipal Court.

Norwood police are familiar with the pair.

In May 2012, officers dialed up an app on a stolen iPhone that led them straight to Vincent Bulzomi, who they said held it up for them when he was confronted.

“This phone?” he asked police who showed up at his house.

The white iPhone 4S was taken from the owner’s car parked at Northern Valley High School in Old Tappan, which the younger Bulzomi attended.

The owner, who installed the GPS app on the phone, apparently had given him rides home from school, police said at the time.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy NORWOOD PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A since-fired bell hop at the Saddle Brook Marriott was arrested by local police last night and charged with slipping into the rooms of newlyweds at their receptions and snatching some of their wedding-gift cash.

Timothy Henriquez, 30, of Chester, NY, is charged with two counts of theft — for a July incident in which $770 was taken and for another on Saturday, when a couple said $500 was stolen. He was released on a summons pending a Municipal Court hearing, police said.

Timothy Henriquez

Henriquez, who was hired in May, apparently slipped up through the freight elevator so that he wouldn’t be detected by hotel surveillance cameras and then used a swipe card to get into unoccupied newlywed suites, police said.

“Upon learning of his arrest, Marriott terminated his employment,” Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said.

Two more people admitted in federal court to their roles in a Bergen County-based “crime superstore” that stole identities from people in Asia to get credit cards and bank loans that were used to buy fancy cars, fine whiskey and designer shoes.

Rita S. Kim, 49, of Fort Lee, and Hyon-Suk “Clara” Chung, 50, of North Bergen, each pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Newark to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud.

Kim and Chung admitted they attached the identities of nearly 100 people with “blank slates” for credit scores to their own credit card accounts, then boosted those credit scores to between 700-800, as part of an operation run by Sang-Hyun “Jimmy” Park.

Park obtained Social Security cards beginning with the prefix “586,” which were issued by the United States to the individuals, usually from China, who were employed in American territories, such as Guam, the government said. He admitted that he and his co-conspirators paid Kim, Chung and others to boost the scores.

Park and his associates then opened bank accounts and obtained credit cards, lines of credits and loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Colluding merchants, many of them Korean, also helped Park’s group obtain cash by swiping credit cards for phantom goods and services, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. For what was known as a “kkang fee,” the collusive merchants charged the fraudulently obtained credit cards, although no transaction took place.

As soon as the money landed in their bank accounts, the merchants passed the money up to Park, minus the fee.

They sold the cards for $5,000 to $7,000 and then helped customers from in and around Palisades Park get driver’s licenses and other identification cards from various states.

Park’s group also used the cards to buy luxury cars, expensive merchandise and liquor, and to withdraw money from accounts with insufficient funds before anyone noticed, federal authorities said. They also wrote checks to pay down the cards and then charged quickly them to the max.

In one case, ring members leased Lexuses or Mercedes, made one payment, then sold the cars, the FBI said.

The bills ended up going to people on the other side of the globe who had no idea what happened. The banks, in turn, took a bath — to the tune of more than $4 million in losses, Fishman said.

Park was so brazen that he advertised in local Korean newspapers that he and his co-conspirators “could obtain driver’s licenses, credit cards, and money for their customers, virtually all of whom were of Korean descent,” according to a 138-page federal arrest complaint.

He pleaded guilty in January, 2012 and is still awaiting sentencing.

More than 50 others have also pleaded guilty in the massive case and have been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing. Two remain at large, Fishman said yesterday.

Just about all of them were rousted from their beds early the morning of Sept. 16, 2010 by hundreds of federal and local investigators in Palisades Park, Tenafly, River Edge and elsewhere.

They were then brought to FBI headquarters in Newark.

Forty-two of those originally charged were directly involved in the massive fraud ring, authorities said.

One of them, Kang Hyok Choi of Long Island, was already in custody, awaiting trial for a triple murder in Tenafly. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office alerted the FBI after finding evidence of the ID theft ring on a computer they found in the house.

It was the first break in what became one of the largest identify fraud cases prosecuted in New Jersey.

One of the defendants, Yoon-Sang Kim of Allendale, was arrested in Fort Lee while driving a vehicle registered to his wife, authorities said. In the car, police found several counterfeit IDs with Kim’s photograph in other people’s names, some of which were used to open bogus bank accounts.

Authorities won’t say who tipped them off to the breadth of the operation. However, some observers told CLIFFVIEW PILOT they would put their money on Choi, who it’s believed struck a deal for leniency in exchange for inside information about the crew.

Fishman praised special agents of the FBI, IRS – Criminal Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office with doing the investigative work.

Handling the case for the government are Assistant U.S. Attorneys Anthony Moscato of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Organized Crime/Gangs Unit and Jane Yoon of the Healthcare and Government Fraud Unit in Newark.

U.S. District Court Judge Katharine S. Hayden set sentencing for Kim and Chang for Jan. 8, 2014.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hillsdale police arrested two Dominican nationals from the Bronx in a borough liquor store where they’re charged with trying to buy $2,000 worth of booze with bogus credit cards.

Officers Liz Zimmerman and Anthony Lacher responded to Bottle King after being called by employees at the Washington Avenue store.

As they spoke with both men, one of them tried using a Pennsylvania driver’s license and several credit cards as identification. All were phony, Officer William Diedtrich said.

Jose Zamora Marte (above, left) and Geovanny Florimon (right), both 34, also had alcohol that they bought from another store with one of the bogus credit cards in their car, Diedtrich said.

Florimon was released on $10,000 bail and Zamora Marte on $2,500 bail Sunday night from the Bergen County Jail.

Florimon is charged with credit card theft, criminal simulation, fraudulent use of a credit card and possession of a fraudulent license. Zamora Marte is charged with fraudulent use of a credit card.

Both have initial Municipal Court appearances coming up.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy HILLSDALE PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgefield minister’s terrified family was held at gunpoint by four men who kicked in a side door and burst into their home last night before making off with jewelry.

“They kept asking where the safe was. But there was none,” Ridgefield Police Capt. Richard Besser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.

No injuries were reported to the minister, his wife and their two adult daughters in the home invasion, which occurred around 11 o’clock last night in the 400 block of Morse Avenue near Edgewater Avenue, Besser said.

The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification processed evidence from the scene.

Meanwhile, Ridgefield detectives were reviewing surveillance video from neighboring homes. They also were trying to determine why the minister would be targeted.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle River Valley Bank in Oakland agreed today to pay an $8.2 million penalty to settle claims that it violated federal laws while doing business with Mexican establishments believed to have laundered profits for drug dealers, federal authorities announced this morning.

SRVB agreed to resolve civil claims brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), which requires financial institutions to maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity that might be money laundering and other financial crimes.

In addition to the penalty, the bank has agreed to a number of related regulatory actions, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.

The federal complaint alleged that SRVB failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and processed transactions involving at least $4.1 million in violation of federal money laundering laws – after the government warned that drug dealers were laundering money through Mexican banks and non-bank currency exchange businesses known as “casas de cambio.”

While a joint investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) was under way, the majority of the assets of SRVB were acquired by another financial institution. The proceeds of that acquisition, plus all other assets of the bank — currently valued at $9.2 million — were held pending the outcome of the investigation.

SRVB has agreed to settle the government’s allegations with a combined penalty of $8.2 million of the remaining $9.2 million and has separately agreed with the OCC to cease operation and to dissolve its charter.

According to Fishman: Beginning at least as early as 2000, several federal agencies – among them, the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the IRS — began issuing public warnings to U.S. financial institutions about the increased money laundering threat present in Mexico.

These warnings were also available through industry-wide advisories, he said.

“It was believed that the proceeds of narcotics sales in the United States were being disproportionately laundered and transferred through banking institutions in Mexico,” the U.S. attorney said. “Many of these warnings also discussed the specific money laundering risks associated with ‘casas de cambio’.”

Beginning in June 2009, SRVB began servicing what Fishman said would ultimately become four CDCs, including three CDCs in Mexico and one in the Dominican Republic.

SRVB voluntarily severed its relationship with the CDCs by May 2011, but only after processing at least $1.5 billion in transactions on behalf of the CDCs.

SRVB’s anti-money laundering program related to the CDCs was deficient in several key areas, the government said. The bank, federal authorities said, failed to:

•    appropriately monitor at least $1.5 billion in transactions conducted on behalf of the CDCs;

•    properly detect and report suspicious activity occurring within the CDC accounts and file Suspicious Activity Reports on a timely basis;

•    conduct sufficient enhanced due diligence on the CDCs;

•    have a BSA officer or other personnel with sufficient experience to operate an AML program;

•    provide adequate training to its employees concerning anti-money laundering;

•    retain qualified periodic independent testers for its anti-money laundering program, as required by the BSA.

After a joint investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the OCC, SRVB agreed to an assessed civil monetary penalty by the OCC of $4. 1 million for the deficiencies in its anti-money laundering program.

SRVB also  agreed to a civil fine of $4.1 million, to be satisfied by one payment to the U.S.  Treasury Department Fishman said.

The bank also agreed to surrender and forfeit an additional $4.1 million to the United States to resolve the investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the OCC.

That brings the total to $8.2 million.

Fishman credited special agents from the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations and thanked Counsel Elizabeth Ratliff and Noelle Kurtin of the OCC, as well as former Trial Attorney Joseph Markel of the Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Evan S. Weitz of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit and Aaron Mendelsohn of the Economic Crimes Unit of Fishman’s office in Newark.

UPDATE: Squads of firefighters, hazardous materials experts and ambulances descended on the United Water treatment plant in Haworth in response to the exposure of six employees to ozone gas, a potentially toxic water-purifying chemical.

“All six have refused medical assistance at this time,” Haworth Lt. Michael Gracey told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

“Our emergency protocols were immediately put into effect and we were able to contain the incident rapidly, thanks to our conscientious personnel,” United Water Vice-President and General Manager Jim Glozzy said in a statement.

Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent widely used to remove bacteria and other pathogens from water. Unlike chlorine, it doesn’t leave behind a taste or odor or any residual disinfectant.

A $100 million upgrade to the Haworth facility in 2009 created one of the largest and most modern ozone facilities in the country. It is capable of pumping up to 200 million gallons of water a day through 2,000 miles of mains to 800,000 residents of Bergen and Hudson counties, according to United Water.

Among those responding to the on Lake Shore Drive facility:

Haworth firefighters and EMS
Demarest firefighters and EMS
New Milford firefighters and hazardous materials unit
Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit
Oradell’s tower ladder truck

Oradell firefighters were also on standby covering New Milford and parts of Haworth.

Yahoo! offers this layman’s explanation of ozone:

What is Ozone in Relation to Water Purification?

You may have noticed that a sudden summer storm leaves behind a very distinct smell, sort of a “fresh scent” which lasts for about an hour. In this case, you smell Ozone, which has been creating from lighting bolts during the electrical storm. Ozone is also created by the Sun’s ultra violet rays.

Ozone – or O3 – is Mother Nature’s purifier and disinfectant. The 3 stands for the three oxygen atoms that compose Ozone. The normal Oxygen we breathe is called O2, and is made up of only two chemically linked Oxygen atoms.

How Does Ozone Kill Germs and Bacteria to Purify Water?

As mentioned above, Ozone is made up of three Oxygen atoms. Once of these has a weak hold on the others, and is more than willing to transfer electrons with other organic substances, such as bacteria, and viruses. This single Oxygen atoms binds with the other substance, causing it to oxidize (turn into something else. Rust is an example of Iron oxidizing into Iron Oxide). The byproduct of Oxidation in this case is simply O – a single Oxygen atom.

How Do Ozonation Water Purifiers Make Ozone?

Ozonation water purification systems create Ozone with something called an Ozone Generator, which creates O3 in much the same way as the sun does. Inside ozone generator’s chamber is a high intensity Ultraviolet (UV) light. Compressed air is forced into the generator’s chamber, which then converts some of the oxygen in the air into Ozone. This process is part of the reason why the layer of Ozone in the Earth’s upper atmosphere protects us from most of the harmful UV rays emanating from our Sun.

The Ozone that has now been created inside the Ozone generator is then sent through a line into a diffuser, which creates ozone-saturated bubbles. Water is drawn in to mix with the bubbles, and then fed into the water purification tank. The weak Oxygen molecule in the Ozone attaches to other organic molecules in the water and oxidizing them. In effect – the Ozone “eat’s ‘em up” and viola! Clean, fresh, purified drinking water.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: In the middle of National Library Card Sign-Up Month, employees at the Teaneck Library helped police crack a series of thefts over the past three weeks.

Detectives went to the library after getting the 5 p.m. call last night that the primary suspect was back, Police Chief Robert Wilson said this afternoon.

There they saw township resident Warren Morgan, 19, acting suspiciously, so they stopped him on his way out, the chief said.

Morgan was brought to headquarters, interviewd and charged with three thefts — as well as one that library staff and police initially didn’t know about, Wilson said.

The incidents:

Sept. 7: Man tells police his iPad was either lost or stolen while he was at the library that day.

Sept. 16: Police respond to a report of a stolen iPhone. A suspect is described as black and wearing glasses, a grey hooded sweatshirt and khaki-colored pants.

Sept. 19: A woman tells police her Mac laptop was taken after she left it unattended for a cople of minutes. A suspect spotted in the area was described as black male, 20-25 years old, about 6 feet tall and wearing a white shirt.

Police recovered the stolen iPhone and were working on retrieving the other items, Wilson said.

Morgan, meanwhile, was charged with several counts of theft, issued a summons to appear in Municipal Court on Oct. 3 and released.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy TEANECK PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: North Arlington Police Chief Louis Ghione got into the act this morning, first blocking and then tackling a man wanted on an outstanding warrant who’d just given Kearny police the slip.

Kearny police went looking for 22-year-old Michael Castillo, who lives in North Arlington, after he fled a motor vehicle stop, North Arlington Capt. John P. Hearn told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He also had a warrant out of Mount Olive Township, Hearn said.

Just after 11:15 a.m., North Arlington Police Officer Michael Hofmann spotted Castillo walking on Morgan Place near the Belleville Turnpike and ordered him to stop.

Castillo took off, running through backyards, Hearn said.

Figuring the suspect was headed home, Sgt Joseph Prinzo went to Castillo’s backyard. Castillo spotted him, then turned and ran back toward Kearny.

Ghione had been out with his officers earlier and was driving back to headquarters with Hearn when they heard the radio call.

“I told the captain, ‘We’re gonna catch this guy’,” Ghione said. Then he hit the gas.

“I passed the officers as they were running,” the chief told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

“Someone on the street pointed toward Van Cortland [Place} and I headed in that direction,” he said. “Then I saw him.

“I drove right past him, smiled, then pulled the car in front of him real quick,” said Ghione, 55, who played recreational baseball up until early last year. “He bounced off the front of the car, stumbled and I grabbed him and brought him to the ground.”

After charging Castillo with resisting arrest, North Arlington police turned him over to their colleagues in Kearny.

Ghione, meanwhile, fielded calls from law enforcement family members and friends jokingly telling him to leave the physical work to the younger guys.

“Look at it this way,” he told one of them. “I didn’t have to run.”

MUGSHOT: Courtesy NORTH ARLINGTON PD

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST:  The driver and his pregnant passenger were taken to the hospital after their car rear-ended a FedEx Freight tractor-trailer on Route 17 south in Ridgewood this morning.

The Honda Civic slammed into the back of the rig under the Linwood Avenue overpass around 11 a.m., police said.

A witness confirmed the 40-year-old Garfield trucker’s account that he had just merged into traffic and had to slow down, Ridgewood Police Capt. Jacqueline Luthcke  told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

“The car behind him was unable to slow down as quickly,” she said.

Ridgewood police, firefighters and EMS workers all responded.

The 24-year-old woman and the driver, 31, both also of Garfield, were taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.

The woman “had no obvious signs of trauma but was complaining of pain,” Luthcke said. “The airbags all deployed fully.”

The right and center lanes of the highway were closed for more than a half-hour. Gridlock backed up the highway for miles and tied up several side streets as drivers tried to find detours.

The wrecked Honda was removed by flatbed tow truck.

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EXCLUSIVE: An HIV-positive Filipino nurse from Bergenfield was sentenced to four years in state prison for having unprotected oral and anal sex with a 14-year old boy he met online.

Roland L. Densen, 39, agreed to the sentence as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.

He’d have received a much harsher sentence if convicted at a trial, Superior Court Judge James J. Guida told him.

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Densen pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault, a third-degree offense, in connection with the incidents, which prosecutors said occurred over a two-month span in the spring of 2012. Authorities arrested Densen in Paramus that May.

His attorney, Marc Sabin, asked the judge to “temper justice with mercy” for his client and sentence him to less time, but Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice said the prosecution had already shown mercy in making the plea offer, partially to spare the victim and his family the ordeal of a trial.

Guida agreed.

Densen, of West Church Street in Bergenfield, is a native of the Philippines and has worked as a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital.

He was originally charged with second-degree sexual assault, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and third-degree sexual penetration by a diseased person.

STORY: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter. (MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE)

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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal grand jury added two counts to the original charges against Teresa and Joe Giudice of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” who are accused of lying on applications for mortgages and other loans when they didn’t have much money, then trying to hide assets — including nearly $1 million in income — during bankruptcy proceedings.

The 41-count superseding indictment returned today adds bank and loan application fraud charges against Teresa Giudice, 41, and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, 43, both of Towaco.

This comes on top of the previous indictment, returned in late July, that charges them with conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud by making false statements on loan applications, as well as with bankruptcy fraud. It also accuses Giuseppe Giudice of failing to file tax returns on nearly $1 million of income for the tax years 2004 through 2008.

“Everyone has an obligation to tell the truth when dealing with the courts, paying their taxes and applying for loans or mortgages,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said when the original indictment was returned. “That’s reality.”

According to Fishman:

“The two additional counts stem from a $361,250 mortgage loan that Teresa Giudice obtained in July 2005. In the course of obtaining the loan, she and Giuseppe Giudice prepared a loan application which falsely stated that Teresa Giudice was employed as a realtor and that she had a monthly salary of $15,000. Teresa Giudice was not employed outside the home at the time.”

According to the initial indicdtment, the Bravo television show couple submitted bogus mortgage and other loan applications and supporting documents for seven years, beginning in 2001, that “falsely represented that they were employed and/or receiving substantial salaries when, in fact, they were either not employed or not receiving such salaries.”

For example, it says, Teresa Giudice applied for a mortgage loan of $121,500 in September 2001 “for which she submitted a loan application that falsely claimed that she was employed as an executive assistant. She also submitted fake W-2 Forms and fake paystubs purportedly issued by her employer.”

The indictment also cites specific instances of alleged bank and loan application fraud.

On Oct. 29, 2009, the Giudices filed a petition for individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark. Over the next few months, the indictment says, they filed several amendments to the bankruptcy petition.

As part of the bankruptcy filings, the Giudices were required to disclose to the government trustee, among other things, assets, liabilities, income, and any anticipated increase in income. The indictment alleges that they “intentionally concealed businesses they owned, income they received from a rental property, and Teresa Giudice’s true income from the television show.”

They also hid income from website sales and personal and magazine appearances, it says.

What’s more, the government says, the Giudices “concealed their anticipated increase in income from the then-upcoming Season Two of the Bravo television show.”

Technically, federal conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud count carries a maximum potential penalty of 20 years of in prison and a $250,000 fine – although a guilty plea or conviction would bring far less than that.

The same applies to the fraud counts, which carry maximum prison terms of up to 30 years and $1 million in fines.

The bankruptcy fraud offenses can each bring up to five years in a federal penitentiary and a $250,000 fine, while failing to file a tax return exposes those convicted to up a year in prison and $100,000 in fines.

Fishman credited special agents of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General, New York Region; special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation; Region 3 U.S. Trustee Roberta DeAngelis and the Newark office of the U.S. Trustee, with the investigation that led to today’s indictment.

The case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan W. Romankow and Rachael Honig.

Defense attorneys Miles Feinstein (Giuseppe Giudice) and Henry Klingeman (Teresa Giudice) are representing the couple.

“The privilege of living well in the United States carries certain real responsibilities, including filing tax returns when required and paying the correct amount of tax,” said Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent in Charge of the Newark office of IRS-Criminal Investigation.

A. Derek Evans, who heads the FDIC Office of Inspector General, added that “the American people need to be assured that their government is working to ensure integrity in the financial services and housing industries and that those involved in criminal misconduct that undermines that integrity will be held accountable.”

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two men were stabbed during a street brawl outside a Teaneck nightclub early yesterday, sending both to hospitals.

An investigation was continuing, although police said they charged another man with carrying the knife and obstructing justice after taking him into custody outside Vinny O’s on Palisade Avenue.

That man, 41-year-old Damon Moye of West New York, was released on a summons, pending a Municipal Court date, Teaneck Detective Lt. Andrew McGurr told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Additional charges were expected, McGurr said.

The fight occurred after Vinny O’s sports bar and restaurant  let out just before 3 a.m. yesterday, the lieutenant said.

The crowd dispersed as police pulled up and found one of the victims, a 26-year-old Hackensack man, with a severe cut on his arm, McGurr said.

He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

“There was quite a bit of blood loss,” McGurr explained.

Hours after the incident, Teaneck police were alerted by their colleagues in Paterson that another victim showed up at St. Joseph’s Medical Center with a stab wound in his back.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy TEANECK PD

TONIGHT: A live, full-scale emergency response to a mock car crash will be staged tonight as part of River Vale Junior Police Academy’s “Family Night” at Holdrum Middle School.

“The Dangers of Alcohol Use and Abuse” is set to begin at 6:30 with a presentation by Steven Benvenisti about “the most significant case” of his career.

The disaster demonstration follows, as attendees watch first responders deal with a drunk driver and a trapped, severely injured passenger.

Participating will be River Vale police, firefighters and ambulance corps members, as well as members of Hackensack University Medical Center’s Mobile Intensive Care Unit, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit and the county medical examiner.

A special guest speaker will then deliver a speech.

The 2013 River Vale Junior Police Academy consists of 110 River Vale 7th- and 8th-grade recruits who are interested in learning more about the criminal justice system.

Classes are held every Monday night and involve various facets of criminal law, procedure, and enforcement.

“Family Night” brings together the recruits with their family members, friends and others from the community.

Holdrum Middle School: 393 Rivervale Road, River Vale.

UPDATE: A 59-year-old Hackensack woman who police said was beaten into a coma by her husband died and charges against him were upgraded to murder to murder.

Thomas Fabbricatore, who was also arrested in March for beating his wife, remained held on $2 million bail today.

His first court appearance is scheduled for this Friday.

Officers responding to an emergency call last Tuesday found 58-year-old Beth Fabbricatore unconscious in their Marvin Avenue home despite her husband’s insistence that nothing had happened, Detective Lt. John Heinemann told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The officers pressed to see her and found the unconscious woman bleeding from the head, he said.

She was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT broke the story about the assault of Mrs. Fabbricatore, who worked for North Jersey Media Group, which publishes the Bergen Record newspaper.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With their 16-month-old child nearby, an Englewood man pushed his girlfriend down a flight of stairs, severely injuring her, during an argument over a cellphone.

Ramsey Rafael Urena, 22, was arrested moments after police responded to a 911 hangup from his 4th Ward home around 2:20 a.m. yesterday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Several family members were present when the officers arrived, Torell said.

“Our primary mission on this type of call is to make the scene safe for everyone – the police, the combatants and, of course, any innocent children who are often injured during these kinds of domestic disturbance,” he said.

The 22-year-old victim sustained back and extremities injuries, the captain said.

Because of the circumstances, police notified the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, he added.

Urena, meanwhile, was being held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault, pending grand jury action.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy ENGLEWOOD PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A boyfriend/girlfriend pair of ex-cons who authorities said confessed to robbing five area TD Bank branches — including those in Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn and Maywood — were indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack.

In four of the holdups, 30-year-old Samantha Simone Dixon drove the getaway car for her boyfriend, 28-year-old Lamont Moseley, authorities said.

Dixon also pulled her own job, they said, and was recorded on surveillance video taking an estimated $1,200 in cash from a Maywood Avenue TD Bank branch on March 27. Moseley was waiting for her and they took off together, police said.

Two other robberies occurred in Haledon and Totowa — both TD Bank branches, the same as in Bergen County.

Moseley also confessed to a December 2011 robbery of a Paterson branch, authorities said.

All told, the couple are accused of taking more than $10,000. Both were arrested as they emerged from their River Street apartment in Paterson on May 29.

The indictment returned Friday charges them with a Feb. 26 robbery of $2,800 from the TD branch on River Road in Fair Lawn and a March 15 holdup of a TD branch on Midland Avenue and Market Street in Elmwood Park, as well as the Maywood robbery.

Moseley, who the indictment says threatened tellers in the Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park heists, remained held on $100,000 bail, and Dixon on $75,000 bail, in the Bergen County Jail.

Working closely with Fair Lawn and Hackensack police, Maywood detectives first pegged Dixon, Maywood Detective Sgt. Timothy Moran told CLIFFVIEW PILOT in May.

“We thought there might be a boyfriend-girlfried connection there,” he said.

The investigators eventually identified Moseley, who fit the description of a 6-foot, 170-pound man who wore a hoodie and dark cap while robbing the other banks.

The 6-10% of all bank robbers who are women believe they’ve chosen a “fairly safe kind of crime to commit in terms of personal risk,” said Robert McCrie, a professor of security management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.

Some get nicknames, which experts say help keep their images in the public eye — from the glamorous “Starlet Bandit” who robbed a California bank to Atlanta’s giggling “Barbie Bandits” to the “Cell Phone Bandit,” who hit four banks in Virginia while talking on her cellphone several years ago.

Moseley and Dixon were caught so quickly that no one bothered to give them nicknames.

MUGSHOTS/SURVEILLANCE IMAGES: Courtesy MAYWOOD PD