Andrew Kissel

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Andrew Kissel (born in Manhattan 1959 or 1960; grew up in Saddle River, New Jersey) is a former U.S. real estate developer who was found murdered on 3 April 2006. He was 46 years old when he died. Kissel was accused of defrauding a New York co-op board of millions of dollars, after which he moved to 10 Dairy Road, Greenwich, Connecticut.

His body was found by workers from a moving company stabbed to death in the basement of a 2.5 million dollar home. The case remains a mystery as there are many people who had problems with him including the US Justice Department, several multi-billion dollar corporations/conglomerates, and his own wife.

In a grisly coincidence, his brother Robert Kissel was murdered in the infamous "milkshake murder" in Hong Kong by Robert's wife, Nancy Kissel.

[edit] Fraud Charges

Frm 1994 to 2002, Kissel had been the treasurer of the co-op board at 200 East 74th Street in Manhattan. He had a great deal of autonomy and sole signing authority over the Board's bank account. He arranged a refinancing plan, to create a reserve fund and pay for renovations to the building, but also siphoned money into his own account, forged signatures, cut and pasted bank statements and eventually embezzled $3.9 million. When the Board confronted him, he confessed and agreed to pay $4.7 million if they agreed to not go public. He paid in October 2003, "confident that the matter had been resolved and the board would not go public." ^[1]