Thomas John Sfraga appropriated the name from a scheming “Seinfeld” character as he bilked friends and neighbors. He was ...

A Brooklyn man who borrowed a running gag from “Seinfeld” by inventing a company named Vandelay to scam investors wasn’t ...

Thomas John Sfraga, 56, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for stealing over $2 million for sham business ventures.

Thomas John Sfraga was sentenced to 45 months in prison for swindling people out of over $2 million using a fictitious ...

A Brooklyn podcaster was sentenced to 45 months in prison for stealing $2 million from real estate and cryptocurrency ...

Thomas John Sfraga took money borrowed from home equity loans and money that was going to be used for children’s tuition.

Investments in Sfraga’s Vandelay company proved just as phony as Vandelay Industries — a supposed latex manufacturing company — on Seinfeld. On the TV show, George Costanza concocts the ...