The president and a top officer of a Secaucus-bases real estate investment company have been charged for their roles in a scheme to defraud more than 2,000 investors in a $650 million Ponzi scheme and conspiring to evade $26 million in tax liabilities, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said Thursday. Also Thursday, a third National Realty Investment Advisors LLC (NRIA) employee pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the same scheme. Thomas Nicholas Salzano, aka “Nicholas Salzano,” 64, of Secaucus, and Rey E. Grabato II, 43, of Hoboken, and the Philippines, are charged in an…
