A former NYPD sergeant whose security company was awarded millions of dollars in city contracts and former executives at a Brooklyn-based nonprofit are facing corruption charges in an alleged scheme to embezzle and steer business toward favored vendors, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Jean Ronald Tirelus and Roberto Samedy, the former chair and executive director, respectively, of an organization that provides home care for elderly New Yorkers and also operates homeless shelters, pocketed more than $1.3 million from the nonprofit.
Tirelus and Samedy also helped Miguel Jorge and retired NYPD sergeant Edouardo St. Fort to secure millions of dollars’ worth of business for their companies in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, according to prosecutors…