The playboy “banana king” who was already convicted for beating up his girlfriend and letting another sex partner die overdosing on potent cocaine he supplied is now facing new charges of stealing nearly $1 million in pension benefits from his employees.
Thomas Hoey dipped into the pension fund at his now-bankrupt Long Island Banana Co. between 2009 and 2012, and used more than $800,000 of it to fund his lavish lifestyle and additional money to cover his company’s losses, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment.
He used his employees’ retirement account to pay for home furniture, Manhattan hotel stays, and travel to London, Paris and Puerto Rico, the indictment says.
The ill-gotten gains were also used on “travel to and from Cancun, Mexico, for Hoey and his family, multiple trips to Aruba, limousine service, and payments to a university attended, at the time, by Hoey’s son.”
Hoey, 47, is charged in the new indictment with money laundering, embezzlement, interstate transportation of stolen money, and wire fraud.
He is already facing plenty of time behind bars and could face decades more under the new charges.
Currently serving 1 1/3 to four years in prison after being convicted of beating up current girlfriend Alison Bretherick in 2012, Hoey is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for his role in the 2009 death of Kimberly Calo, who overdosed on cocaine that Hoey supplied during a wild three-way sex romp.
The U.S. Probation Department has asked that Hoey be sentenced 20 years for that crime.