They were charged with criminal breach of trust, criminal conspiracy, cheating, falsification of records and forgery.
A careful examination of these records often detects the forgery.
In 1951, he was convicted in a Belgian court of multiple acts of forgery, falsifying records, and taking money under false pretenses, and sentenced to five years in prison, plus costs and fines.
He said that he was now being investigated by the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau over the forgeries, and that he had notified Internal Affairs of the incident recently, when he learned that Mr. Schwarz's lawyer, Ronald P. Fischetti, had subpoenaed his old records and that the forgeries were likely to come up at trial.
Dozens had criminal records, including felony convictions for forgery, aggravated robbery, narcotics possession and aggravated assault.
Mr. Rossi, 39, was charged with first-degree arson for hire, theft by deception, arson, conspiracy, forgery and falsifying records.
He was arrested in 2006 in Queens and charged with grand larceny, forgery and falsifying records for fraud.
Dr. Waksal was indicted last month on charges of insider trading, bank fraud, forgery and destroying records to obstruct a federal inquiry.
He was also indicted on Aug. 7 by a federal grand jury in Manhattan on charges of insider trading, bank fraud, forgery and destroying records to obstruct a federal inquiry.
Mr. Constant, who is also known as Toto, was one of six people charged with grand larceny, forgery and falsifying records for fraud that the authorities said occurred between 2004 and this year.
