An Amsterdam man is under arrest, accused of stealing money from the CARES Act.
Attorney General Letitia James announcing on Monday the arrest of 66-year-old Robert Decker on charges stemming from his alleged theft of over $6,000 in unemployment benefits from the CARES Act. Decker was employed at National Home Exteriors, a Greene County home contractor, where between August and October he was paid over $18,000 at work while receiving as much as $800 a week in unemployment. Decker had recently been indicted in early October on 17 counts in a million dollar contractor scam.