By STEFANIE COHEN
June 4, 2008
A shady stockbroker who ripped off a 9/11 widow's share of the federal Victim Compensation Fund in order to renovate his New Jersey home and buy a time-share in Florida pleaded guilty to fraud yesterday.
"I explained to a client that she could deposit checks and I would take care of them for her," Kevin Dunn, 29, told a Brooklyn federal judge. "Instead of putting them into her account, I put them into my own."
Dunn, of Colonia, NJ, told his longtime friend Jaime Amoroso, 31, that he would help her invest the $2 million she got when her husband, Port Authority cop Christopher Amoroso died in the attacks.
Instead, the MetLife broker made the unsuspecting woman write a series of blank checks, which he promptly stole.
In all, he took $250,000 from the widow and used the cash to renovate his home and buy a timeshare at Disney World.
Dunn faces up to 71 months in prison when he is sentenced in September, and must forfeit $323,000.
MetLife reimbursed Amoroso for all the cash Dunn stole from her.
