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| Vincent Marciano |
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| Romanoff Quarles |
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Public Corruption Task Force announced Oct. 16 that it would press charges against six individuals presumably connected to a scheme that netted one supposed plotter the home and car of Dorothy Kennedy, who passed away in her 2800-block-of-South-Marshall-Street home on Aug. 21, 2010. The detained individuals include locals Romanoff Quarles, 43, and Vincent Marciano, 63.
The task force initiated its investigation last year following an anonymous tip from a resident who contended someone was attempting to steal property from the estate of the Marconi East resident, who had no relatives or will. The entity’s endeavors, documented in a 21-page report, posit that Quarles, of the 600 block of Johnston Street, looked to acquire the home after learning of Kennedy’s death. To do this, authorities posit, he enlisted attorney Andrew Kaufman, whom they contend used his experience with the Philadelphia Orphans Court and Register of Wills office to orchestrate a scheme that would secure Quarles property and money that should have immediately gone to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The document states that Quarles and Kaufman called on real estate agent Marciano, of the 2600 block of South 15th Street, to set up a sale of the abode to Quarles based on his own determined price. Kennedy also left behind an ’05 Buick LeSabre in the name of husband Francis Kennedy, who died in ’08, and the report notes that Quarles took the automobile, too, and transferred the title to himself. The highly detailed document also mentions three other males whom officials contend also worked to defraud the state, tabbing two with creating a false funeral bill that Kaufman used for a court filing and one with permitting “a sham sale of the estate’s automobile.”
Authorities charged Quarles with criminal conspiracy, theft by deception, receiving stolen property and forgery and Marciano with criminal conspiracy and tampering with public records.
Contact Managing Editor Joseph Myers at jmyers@southphillyreview.com or ext. 124.
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