{"id":115,"date":"2005-02-03T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/those_law_order_scripts_just_keep_on_coming.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:08:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:08:42","slug":"law_order_scrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/law_order_scrip.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Law & Order Scripts Just Keep on Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ripped out of the headlines faster than Dick Wolf spins off shows. “Cheatin’ Hearts Get Scammed”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A pair of con artists has been shaking down wives who have illicit affairs in hot-sheet hotels around Brooklyn \u00e2\u20ac\u201d threatening to tell their husbands unless they cough up thousands of dollars, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The sleazy scheme was bared after one victim, a mother of three, went to cops, who staged a sting.<\/p>\n

The duo would case short-stay hotels to identify guests who looked like they were married women there for a quickie with a secret lover, sources said.<\/p>\n

Then they approached the cheaters and said they’d been hired by their husbands to follow them and had gathered plenty of evidence.<\/p>\n

They said the evidence could quietly vanish for a payoff of up to $2,000 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the women, frantic to keep their indiscretions quiet, forked over the dough.<\/p>\n

“They looked for women coming out of motels in the middle of the day with smiles on their faces,” one law-enforcement source said.<\/p>\n

“Chances are anybody smiling as they leave a motel in the middle of the day is not leaving with the man they’re married to.”<\/p>\n

As many as a dozen cheating housewives may have been victimized, sources said.<\/p>\n

Things unraveled when the two men approached a Mill Basin woman on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n

They told her they had videotape of her going in and out of hotels and demanded money, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The frantic woman went to police, and 63rd Precinct detectives set up a sting at the Arch Diner, at Flatlands and Ralph avenues.<\/p>\n

The woman met one man, Carmine Russo, 24, outside and, with cops watching, gave him $1,500, police said.<\/p>\n

Russo, who lives on Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, is charged with grand larceny by extortion and petit larceny.<\/p>\n

The whistleblower, who said her hubby still doesn’t know of her two-timing ways, told The Post the experience has jolted her.<\/p>\n

“It is horrible! Everybody is out to ruin me!” she said.<\/p>\n

Police are asking other victims to contact them at (718) 258-4401.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did you catch the latest Life-Imitates-Briscoe line there? “Chances are anybody smiling as they leave a motel in the middle of the day is not leaving with the man they’re married to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ripped out of the headlines faster than Dick Wolf spins off shows. “Cheatin’ Hearts Get Scammed”: A pair of con artists has been shaking down wives who have illicit affairs in hot-sheet hotels around Brooklyn \u00e2\u20ac\u201d threatening to tell their husbands unless they cough up thousands of dollars, The Post has learned. The sleazy scheme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}