WHAT A HEEL: He Hadda Be In It To Win It
Obsessed lottery player Richard Bassik, 67, pleaded guilty to 14 counts, including scheme to defraud and grand larceny, for using his property management company to steal $2.3 million from the accounts of 19 Manhattan condo and co-op buildings between January 2005 to August 2009, reports the New York Post:
[Bassik] will be sentenced to 5 to 15 years behind bars after accepting a deal that could keep him locked up until death. With time already served, Bassik’s best hope for freedom won’t come until early 2015. …
The buildings suffered between $7,000 and $881,000 in losses and Bassik said he’d often cover his tracks by moving money from account to account. …
Almost all of the stolen money went to a variety of lottery games he played in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Bassik had previously been convicted in 1976 for kidnapping a 6-year-old boy and demanding a $100,000 ransom.
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