Heating Oil Scam Leads to Arrest of Dozens of Executives and Truck Drivers

After uncovering a years-long scam, involving the rigging of fuel trucks to shortchange customers on the amount of heating oil delivered to homes and other buildings, more 40 owners, executives and truck drivers from some of the city's largest fuel oil companies were arrested yesterday. Those defrauded of the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars, included city agencies, NYPD, FDNY and some of Manhattan's most prominent developers. Click here to read more.