He was con-cierge. Now he’s a convict.
Fraudster Robert Giuliano told a Manhattan judge Monday that he swindled travelers out of thousands of dollars by claiming to book them into luxury hotels and then using the accommodations himself.
Posing as the CEO of phony “Giuliano Group Concierge,” the creative crook promised to set victims up at ritzy hotels in Manhattan and South Beach or to score them tickets to hot events including Fashion Week and the presidential inaugural ball.
The Brooklyn native was a regular guest at the W Hotel, Westin, Mercer Hotel, Four Points and St. Regis, among others, before his scheme unraveled in 2012.
In one incident, he used two victims’ credit cards to ring up $11,000 worth of room costs, food and drinks for himself.
When questioned about the charges, Giuliano told his marks that he had suffers major calamities – from getting kidnapped to learning that his wife had cancer.
He paid off old victims with funds from new suckers to keep his lavish lifestyle afloat.
As part of the plea deal, Giuliano faces four to eight years in prison for 10 counts of identity theft, scheme to defraud, falsifying business records and grand larceny. He also must pay back his victims.