COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

 

 

COUNTY OF ROCKLAND

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
.. against .. IND. N0 2017-127
VILAIR FONVIL and ERMIKA DEPAS,
Defendants.


THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF ROCKLAND, by this indictment,
accuses the defendant, VILAIR FONVIL, of the crime of CORRUPTING THE
GOVERNMENT IN THE THIRD DEGREE (Sec. 496.03 Penal Law), committed as follows:

The defendant, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York, on or about
and between the day of June, 2016 and the 31St day of August, 2016, acting individually and
in concert with another, being a public servant, engaged in a scheme constituting a systematic
course of conduct with intent to defraud the state and one or more political subdivisions of the
state and one or more governmental instrumentalities within the state to obtain property, actual
services, and other resources, and obtain property, actual services and other resources from the
state, and any political subdivision and governmental instrumentality of the state by false or
fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, and thereby wrongfully obtained such

property, actual services and other resources.

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND COUNT:

AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant, JERMIKA DEPAS, of the crime of CORRUPTING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE
THIRD-DEGREE (Sec. 496.03 Penal Law), committed as follows:

The defendant, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York, on or about
and between the 1St day of June, 2016 and the 315t day of August, 2016, acting individually and
in concert with a public servant, engaged in a scheme constituting a systematic course of conduct
with intent to defraud the state and one or more political subdivisions of the state and one or
more governmental instrumentalities within the state to obtain property, actual services, and
other resources, and obtain preperty, actual services and other resources from the state, and any
political subdivision and governmental instrumentality of the state by false or fraudulent

pretenses, representations and promises, and thereby wrongfully obtained such property, actual

services and other resources.

THIRD COUNT:

AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant, VILAIR FONVIL, of the crime of GRAND LARCENY IN THE THIRD DEGREE,
A CRIME OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION, (Sec. Penal Law), committed as
follows:

The defendant, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York, on or about
and between the ISI day of June, 2016 and the 31St day of August, 2016, acting individually and
in concert with another, being a public servant and through the use of his public of?ce, stole
property valued in excess of Three Thousand Dollars from the Village of Spring Valley and the

Village of Spring Valley was the owner of said property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOURTH COUNT:

AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant, JERMIKA DEPAS, of the'crime of GRAND LARCENY IN THE THIRD DEGREE, 
A CRIME OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION, (Sec. Penal Law), committed as
follows: .

The defendant, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York, on or about
and between the ISI day of June, 2016 and the 31St day of August, 2016, acting individually and
in concert with a public servant and through the use of said public servant?s public of?ce, stole
property valued in excess of Three Thousand Dollars from the Village of Spring Valley and the

Village of Spring Valley was the owner of said. property.

FIFTH COUNT:
AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, accuses the

defendants of the crime of MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE FOURTH DEGREE (Sec.
Penal Law), committed'as follows: I

The defendants, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York on or about
and between the day of June, 2016 and the 31St day of August, 2016, acting individuallyland
in concert with each other, knowing that the property inyolved in one and more ?nancial
transactions represent the proceeds of criminal conduct, conducted one and more ?nancial
transactions which in fact involve the proceeds of speci?ed criminal conduct, to wit, Receiving
Reward for Of?cial Misconduct in the Second Degree (Sec. 200.25 Penal Law), knowing that
the transaction and transactions in whole and in part were designed to conceal and disguise the I

nature, the location, the source and the control of the proceeds of criminal conduct and the total

 

 

 

 

 

value of the property involved in such ?nancial transaction or transactions exceeded Five

Thousand Dollars 

SIXTH COUNT:

AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant, VILAIR FONVIL, of the crime of RECEIVING REWARD FOR OFFICIAL
MISCONDUCT IN THE SECOND-DEGREE, (Sec. 200.25 Penal Law), committed as follows':?

The defendant, in the County of Rockland, in the State of New York, on or about
and between the 1St day of June, 2016 and the 31St day of August, 2016, acting individually and
in concert with another, being a public servant, solicited, accepted and agreed to accept a bene?t

from another person for having violated his duty as a public servant.

    



THOMAS P. ZUGIBE
District Attorney
Rockland County