A Long Island builder has stiffed his ex-wife and their teen triplets on child support and alimony while shacking up with his new gal pal in a luxury farmhouse with ponies, The Post has learned.
Dominick Cusumano was ordered to pay almost $12,000 per month in child support and alimony, but has been sending weekly checks of just $150 to furious ex-wife Maria Cusumano and their 15-year-old triplets, Suffolk County records show.
Maria, who also has an older son by Dominick, said they are living on food stamps and Medicaid.
“I’m living month to month on welfare, living in a rented house not knowing where my children and I will be next month and he’s living in the lap of luxury,” Maria, 48, said.
“He has a house, he has a farm, he has a business, he has ponies, and what do we have? One-hundred fifty dollars a week. It’s just not right.”
Dominick, 54, who co-owns DNA Cusumano Home Improvements and Design with girlfriend Adele Nuzzo, said that the house belongs to Nuzzo and that he contributed nothing to the purchase of the 1¹/₂ acres of land or the construction of the home in upscale Jamesport on the North Fork of Long Island.
He also said he’s in the process of appealing the court-ordered support he owes his ex.
“I had a home-improvement company and she had me locked up and I lost everything,” Dominick said, referring to when he was imprisoned for nonpayment of support. “How could I pay $13,000 a month?”
Dominick’s lawyer acknowledged his client owes the money, which, according to a 2012 Suffolk County Family Court document, totaled more than $257,000.
“He was ordered to pay money that he can’t afford to,” said Anthony Cepetola, adding that he believes Maria makes $50,000 a year working off the books in a beauty salon even as she hounds his client for cash.
“He’s broke. She broke him.”
But Dominick’s questionable behavior goes back years.
In 2010, a Long Island judge slammed him as “despicable . . . vindictive, vengeful and hateful” after he told the IRS he owed $1.6 million in taxes and suggested the agency take the house his wife and kids were living in on the eve of his divorce trial.