A 40-year-old Queens man has pleaded guilty to stealing an elderly woman’s home while she was receiving hospice care, using forged property deeds and notarizations attributed to a licensed Nassau County notary, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Nov. 5.
Victor Quimis, of Queens, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree grand larceny and second-degree residential mortgage fraud in connection with the theft of Renuka Bherwani’s home in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.
According to prosecutors, Quimis and co-defendant Deepa Roy, 69, of Manhattan, forged documents to transfer ownership of Bherwani’s property without her authorization while she was receiving hospice care…