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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union - March 18, 1931 - Court News
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:27:18 EST
DIVORCED WIFE CHARGES REAL ESTATE FRAUD
Former Bay Ridge Man Held in $51,000 Bail for Grand Larceny
With his divorced first wife listed by police as a complainant against him,
Frank E. PIRONE, 42, whose last known address here was 138 Seventy-third
street, is being held in $51,000 bail today on grand larceny charges
resulting from his conduct of a real estate business at 589 Fourth avenue.
PIRONE was arraigned before Magistrate EILPERIN in Fifth avenue court and
held in $50,000 bail on the complaint of Mrs. Mary TUTONETTI, of 1052
Sixty-second street, and in $1,000 bail on the complaint of Carol DERISO, of
208 Union avenue, for hearings next Tuesday.
More than twenty men and women were in court, including Mrs. Margaret PIRONE,
a school teacher, of 4133 Gleane street, Elmhurst, his first wife, when
PIRONE was arraigned. According to police PIRONE cheated his clients of
$200,000 before he disappeared last June. This total includes $75,000 taken
from his first wife, it is alleged, and $5,000 from an aunt, Mrs. Jenny
PIRONE, of 466 central avenue.
Lieut. Elmer JOSEPHS and Detective Harry FOX, of the Fifth avenue station,
arrested PIRONE in a garage at West Farms road and Boone avenue, Bronx, said
to be owned by his brother-in-law, John MCKENNA, of 336 Seventy-sixth street,
a letter carrier.
In her complaint Mrs. TUTONETTI alleges that she was swindled out of $5,000
which she gave PIRONE in small sums during 1929 and 1930 to pay off the
mortgage on her home. DERISO charged PIRONE with appropriating to his own use
$200 he gave him with which to pay his insurance.
Among PIRONE'S other victims, according to police, was Leopoldo RAPPACCIULO,
60 of 535 Flushing avenue, whose life savings, $20,000, was given to the real
estate man to invest. Others were Fred RAFF, of 348 Eighty-sixth street, who
for $9,000 was given title to a piece of land on Laurel Hill road, Long
Island City, later discovered to be part of Calvary Cemetery, and Francesco
MARESCO, of 918 Seventy-fifth street, who "invested" $9,000 also, according
to police.
PIRONE'S second wife lives at 7216 Colonial road, police declared. They have
two children.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info. Page by Mary Davis
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