The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week that celebrated the opening of 48 new affordable apartments for families in Ocean Township.
The state has shifted $50M in federal Sandy recovery funds, to help nearly 1,000 families still not back in damaged homes and unable to pay for needed work.
In the latest case of fraud at the Jersey Shore, another contractor who did wrong to several homeowners is now heading to prison as the Sandy fraud epidemic continues.
Peter Rinaldi faces several years in prison for stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars from Ocean County homeowners trying to rebuild after the Superstorm.
A Seaside Heights contractor could spend several-years in prison if convicted on charges of theft and money laundering for deceiving a Toms River man to do work following Sandy.
A former Hoboken Police officer who resides in Seaside Heights is sentenced to five years in prison and his wife three years of probation for stealing $187,000.00 in Sandy relief funds.