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Con-artists Give Auto Trim a Bad Wrap

January 24, 2012 By Nadeem Muaddi

No blog is complete without a bit of scandal – which is why we’re introducing a new article category: “Hall of Shame”. While we hope our industry doesn’t produce enough news for us to regularly update this series, rest assure that when it does, we’ll feature it here.

Case in point: auto trimmers/con-artists Joseph and Jennie Fusco

According to local reports, the pair have been running auto trim scams in Fort Ann, New York for nearly a decade – giving the hardworking folks in our industry a bad name.

Post Star writes:

The Fuscos were in trouble with police in the region on-and-off for nearly a decade, since they moved to the area in 2001 from Florida. They left Florida amid similar fraud charges.

They have been repeatedly accused of taking money from customers to do upholstery work on cars, boats and furniture, but not doing the work. [more]

The Fusco’s were arrested and convicted numerous times of defrauding customers. In 2010, they were sentenced to prison for felony charges related to fraud and grand larceny. They were also sentenced on probation violations stemming from a 2008 case. Claiming that their sentences for probation violation were excessive, the couple filed appeals, but were denied  on Thursday by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court.

Joseph is currently serving a 2 to 5-year prison term, while his wife was released in October after participating in NY’s shock incarceration program. She’s on parole until 2013.

Filed Under: Archive, Crime, Hall of Shame Tagged With: Auto Trim, Auto Upholstery, Car Interior, The Crooked Stitcher

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  1. Eddy says

    June 12, 2014 at 7:01 pm

    Does anyone know where Jennie is now ? I heard see here in Florida. She has my engine hatch cover off a 1985 formula 206. I’m pretty sure she reupholstered it last fall but I never got it back.

    • I doe says

      October 11, 2015 at 7:51 pm

      They are in Fort Lauderdale Florida
      Fusco

  2. Robert Booth says

    May 20, 2016 at 2:06 am

    I have known Joe Fuscoe’s dad for many years and he is a very good guy. I never knew Joe until two months ago when I gave him a $900 deposit for a job to recover some airplane seats. He has done nothing for it and does not intend to. When I confronted him about his past and demanded my money back, he bragged about being untouchable by the law because he says it’s all about the intent to do the job, and that he has been through this fifty times. He also said he is hooked on heroine and that getting high is all he cares about.

  3. Robert Booth says

    May 20, 2016 at 2:18 am

    Joe Fuscoe’s has set up what appears to be a hole in he wall upholstery shop in a storage building on Dixie Highway in Fort Lauderdale. He is a fast talker that has screwed several people I know since he got to me. He talks a good story, but stay far away because he is very bad news.

  4. Roy James says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:21 am

    They ran off with a $1000 bucks, but we got them to serve time…. the sons cashed the checks and are a bunch of hoodlums….. he is in hiding…. still looking over his shoulder…

  5. Ray says

    March 3, 2018 at 3:34 pm

    Joe and his wife are running an upholstery shop in Ticonderoga NY. They just closed one in Hudson Falls NY. Just left a couple messages trying to get him to finish a job from almost two years ago. Nothing but lies and excuses from the both of them. These are SORRY PEOPLE stay away!!!!!!!!

  6. william montgomery says

    June 10, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    Ray: I am chasing Fuscos now for money and they have my boat, work not done. Just discovered it in Ti behind old Wicker Ford shop. Can you call me 518 222 0389 Bill

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