Seaford accountant accused of stealing

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A Seaford accountant was charged on June 10 with stealing $30,000 from a client just seven months after being accused of taking more than $80,000 from three others.

Scott Meyer, 48, a former partner at Johnson and Meyer in Huntington, was charged with third-degree grand larceny and two counts of first-degree falsifying business records, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

His attorney David Besso said Meyer was accused of stealing from Nob Hill Condominiums in Ronkonkoma, but Meyer denied the allegations. He was told by Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota to surrender at the courthouse in Riverhead, and Meyey’s bail was set at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond.

Besso said health problems prove that Meyer is not responsible for his actions.

"Scott has brain lesions and possible brain cancer," Besso said. "We have a valid defense. We'll prove that he had no intent to do any of the things that the DA alleges."

In the initial indictment in December of 2013, Meyer was charged with six counts of second-degree grand larceny for allegedly targeting an 80-year-old Greenport man that suffers from dementia, a disabled victims living in a California assisted living facility and a not-for-profit cemetery association in Huntington.

“The defendant allegedly stole more than $800,000 from the two senior citizens and the not for profit group by acting as the victims’ accountant and writing checks to himself from his clients’ accounts,” Spota said.