Contractor Charged With Felony Fraud

A Queens building contractor has been charged with falsifying proof of insurance, leaving his employees without workers’ compensation insurance and stealing more than $56,000 in insurance premiums. Gerard Marino, 41, of Maspeth, owner of GMCM Contracting Corp. in Astoria, was released pending his next court appearance Dec. 19. He was arraigned on charges of grand larceny in the second degree, insurance fraud in the second degree, falsifying business records in the first degree and criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, all felonies, said state Workers&rsq...