Apr 4, 2006 5:39 pm US/Eastern
Defendant Found Dead In New York Mansion
GREENWICH, Conn. (CBS) ―
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Andrew Kissel's bloody body was discovered by a moving crew in the basement of the recently sold estate, his ankle-monitoring bracelet still attached.
CBS
A real estate developer charged with stealing millions of dollars was found stabbed to death Monday in the basement of his Greenwich mansion.
Police said the victim, Andrew Kissel, 46, was found lying in a pool of blood, his hands and feet bound.
Kissel had criminal cases pending in federal and state courts in New York. The federal case charged him with real estate fraud, and state prosecutors charged him with grand larceny, alleging he stole nearly $4 million from his Manhattan apartment cooperative.
Greenwich, a bedroom suburb of New York City, is one of the wealthiest communities in the nation.
The New York Times reported that Kissel was scheduled to appear in federal court in White Plains, N.Y. on Wednesday to plead guilty to fraud charges in connection with a number of real estate deals.
State prosecutors said Kissel was wearing an electronic monitoring anklet, which allowed him to leave home and travel only to certain places without sending an alarm.
Kissel was the brother of Robert Kissel, a wealthy banker whose wife, Nancy, was convicted of murdering her husband in Hong Kong in 2003 after feeding him a milkshake laced with drugs and then beating him to death.
Andrew Kissel and his recently estranged wife, Hayley, had cared for Robert Kissel's three children until they were formally handed over to the custody of the Kissels' sister who lives near Seattle
William Kissel, the father of the two slain men, told the Times: "I haven't read the book of Job yet, but I'm about to."
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