Sheepshead Bay woman gets six years for posing as real estate agent to steal $600,000
A woman from Sheepshead Bay could spend the next six years in prison after she was sentenced on Thursday for stealing approximately $613,000 from 20 different people while she posed as a real estate agent.
Yelena Litvak, 56, signed a confession and pleaded guilty last month to three counts of second-degree grand larceny. She was sentenced to an indeterminate term of two to six years in prison for each count, which will run concurrently, by Justice Martin Murphy.
“The defendant cheated more than a dozen innocent people out of their life savings and hard-earned cash, then gambled it away,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “I will not tolerate these kinds of fraudulent and criminal actions in Brooklyn. With today’s sentence, the defendant has been held accountable.”