Popular Italian restaurant Fresco by Scotto was robbed of more than $2 million by its brazen bookkeeper — who allegedly used the siphoned cash to buy a house, pay her husband’s internet bills and line her own pockets, The Post has learned.
Lori Jakubowski is facing charges that she embezzled $2.5 million for the Midtown East hotspot co-owned by Channel 5’s “Good Day New York” anchor Rosanna Scotto, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors in DA Alvin Bragg’s office said Jakubowski ran the grand scheme over a seven-year period, stealing money in any way she could — from snatching cash tips to writing herself checks from the eatery’s bank account.
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