CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — An accountant is facing federal charges after prosecutors said he defrauded more than a dozen investors of more than $3 million through real estate schemes involving properties across Long Island and elsewhere in New York.
Alberto Gomez, 48, of Boca Raton, Florida, was charged with four counts of wire fraud and one count of bankruptcy fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Gomez, who operated an accounting practice in Elmhurst, was arrested in Boca Raton after the indictment was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip. He will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date…