Jul 24, 2006 4:07 pm US/Eastern
2 Men Charged In Model Agency Ripoff
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
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28-year-old Endriss Farazi
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The state attorney general has charged two men with running a bogus modeling agency.
Prosecutors say 28-year-olds Edriss Farazi and Kevin Caruso recruited aspiring models for their company Marvel Models, promised them jobs, then stole their deposits. The victims ranged in age from 2 to 20 years old.
Farazi was arraigned Monday morning at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. He was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail. He's already being held in Worcester on assault and battery charges.
A warrant for Caruso's arrest was to be issued at Farazi's arraignment.
Farazi, who is from Framingham, is charged with 13 counts of larceny over $250, two counts of unemployment fraud and one count each of workers' compensation fraud, operating an unlicensed employment/modeling agency and false or fraudulent advertising by an employment agency.
Caruso, who was once from Natick, will be charged with four counts of larceny over $250.
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