STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Eleven individuals were arrested in connection with a gang-linked check-washing scheme and financial conspiracy that operated on Staten Island, prosecutors allege.

An investigation spearheaded by the Staten Island district attorney’s office and the Staten Island Narcotics Major Case Team determined that over several months in 2023 and 2024, several participants in the conspiracy sought to bilk over a half a million dollars from more than a dozen financial institutions, authorities announced.

The defendants — at least some of them alleged members or associates of the OS and 400 gangs in New Brighton — were arrested this week on various fraud and grand larceny-related charges in what officials described as a “multi-faceted” operation.

Two of the defendants’ names wer

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