A former top aide to indicted state Sen. John Sampson was indicted himself Thursday on a host of fraud and tax crimes — including charges that he defrauded the state Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee out of $100,000.
Melvin Lowe, 52, allegedly scammed the cash out of the DSCC in 2010 by getting a printing vendor to send the committee a fake invoice and then forward $75,000 of the cash to himself, said Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara while announcing the nine-count indictment returned by a White Plains grand jury.