{"id":20855,"date":"2020-11-18T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=20855"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:25:45","slug":"genesee-county-former-funeral-director-charged-after-allegedly-violating-nys-public-health-law-and-offering-a-false-instrument-for-filing-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/18\/genesee-county-former-funeral-director-charged-after-allegedly-violating-nys-public-health-law-and-offering-a-false-instrument-for-filing-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Former funeral director charged after allegedly violating NYS Public Health Law and offering a false instrument for filing, a felony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On November 18, 2020, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Michael S. Tomaszewski, 48, of Batavia, being a funeral director at his business, Michael S. Tomaszewski Funeral & Cremation Chapel LLC, he allegedly held a deceased body of a person at this business for 264 days, from April 2018-January 2019, without burying or incinerating, therefore violating NYS Public Health Law, Section 4200, which calls for a deceased person to be buried within a reasonable time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomaszewski also allegedly, in regards to the same deceased person’s death certificate, filed a death certificate with a public office indicating that the deceased person was buried at a specified cemetery on a date, which they were not, therefore offering a false instrument for filing in violation of NYS Penal Law, Section 175.35, subdivision 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation was initiated in January of 2019 after the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from a family member of the deceased inquiring as to the whereabouts of the decedent’s remains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation has been ongoing. The decedent has since received a proper burial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomaszewski was issued appearance tickets on both charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will appear in the Town of Batavia Court on December 3, 2020 at 1:00p.m. to answer the violation of NYS Public Health Law, a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will appear in the Town of Oakfield Court on December 7, 2020 at 6:00p.m. to answer the offering a false instrument for filing 1st degree charge, a class E felony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in the investigation by the Genesee County Coroner’s Office, Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Genesee County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On November 18, 2020, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Michael S. Tomaszewski, 48, of Batavia, being a funeral director at his business, Michael S. Tomaszewski Funeral & Cremation Chapel LLC, he allegedly held a deceased body of a person at this business for 264 days, from April 2018-January 2019, \u2026<\/p>\n

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