The Scofflaw King

MAN OWES CITY $81G FOR 415 PARKING TICKETS
By KYLE MURPHY and CHUCK BENNETT

The city's No. 1 parking-ticket scofflaw is a 30-year-old insurance broker from Long Island, records show.

Alexander Khamish earned the dubious distinction of wracking up an $81,039 debt, according to the city's Department of Finance. But despite amassing 415 tickets since 2004, the Merrick man claims they've got the wrong guy.

"Basically, someone registered [the offending] vehicles under my name," Khamish said. "I knew about this a couple years ago, but I didn't know it [involved an] $80,000 [debt]. Someone did register vehicles under my name before I found out, but I was going back and forth with the DMV, and from the last I heard, I thought everything was OK."

Khamish said he had no idea of the debt until contacted by The Post. Ken Brown, a spokesman for the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said it received no paperwork regarding Khamish's claim.

But Khamish denied ever owning or leasing five cars registered to him at his old Brooklyn address. While it's unclear which of the cars may have racked up the violations, Khamish's driver's license is currently suspended because whoever registered three of those cars in his name at his old address sent bad checks to the DMV, records show.

The Finance Department said it has been sending its letters to Khamish's old Brooklyn address. "If it winds up his identity was stolen, he won't be responsible for the tickets," said Finance Department spokesman Owen Stone.

Meanwhile, the other individuals on the city's top-10 scofflaw list haven't changed over the past year. The No. 2 scofflaw, Christopher Wood of Floral Park, Queens, came in at $66,233 owed on 404 tickets since 2002.

Others include Sammy Gawad, 54, a former cop from The Bronx who was fired from the NYPD after numerous allegations of abuse. He has a $37,121 debt for 231 tickets dating back to 2000. Other perennials include Chaim Kauftial, an Israeli with 229 outstanding tickets totaling $42,228 over the past eight years, and Israel Colon of Newark, NJ, with $49,167 in penalties and fines for 278 tickets since 2003.

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