*New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced the arrest and 23‑count indictment of Mark Salkey, 58, of Queens, for allegedly stealing the East Flatbush home and life savings of 92‑year‑old Althea Garrick, who suffers from advanced dementia.
Salkey is charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal possession of a forged instrument, forgery, offering a false instrument for filing, and falsifying business records, among other counts, and faces a potential sentence of up to 25 years in prison on the top charge.
Prosecutors say that between 2022 and 2024, Salkey used forged documents, including a forged deed, to transfer ownership of Garrick’s longtime home in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, to his company, Salkey Salkey & Associate, Inc. Once he had control of the property, he allegedly moved in unauthorized tenants, one of them her sister, and charged them $2,000 to $2,200 per month, collecting about $70,000 in rent while Garrick and her ex‑husband, Reginald Kelly, were forced to live in a single small bedroom in the house they had owned for decades…