Aquebogue woman charged with theft from mother’s estate pleads guilty to felony grand larceny charge

The Aquebogue woman charged with stealing more than $330,000 from her mother’s estate has entered a guilty plea to a felony grand larceny charge and awaits sentencing in Suffolk County Criminal Court.

Carol Majeski, 58, faces a maximum of 15 years in state prison on conviction of the second-degree grand larceny charge. She pleaded guilty as charged on Jan. 6 and is scheduled to appear before Judge Fernando Camacho for sentencing on March 4, according to online court records.

An August 2014 grand jury indictment charged Majeski, the executrix of the estate of her mother, Jean L. Bulak, with stealing the funds from the estate’s accounts. See prior story.

The indictment came a year after Majeski’s initial arrest on a warrant issued by Suffolk County Surrogate John Czygier, who had ruled the woman in contempt of court for failing to provide a compulsory accounting of the estate’s assets. The surrogate found that Majeski failed to distribute the funds in her mother’s estate and withdrew more than $330,000 from the estate’s accounts, according to the ruling.

After selling her mother’s Calverton home on behalf of the estate for $335,000 in June 2010, Majeski failed to respond to correspondence from the estate’s attorneys or her brothers and sisters, according to court documents. She also failed to appear in court and failed to comply with a court order requiring an accounting of the estate’s assets, according to court documents.

Following her arrest on the Surrogate’s Court warrant, Majeski in September 2013
entered into a stipulation promising to repay the funds, but did not comply, prompting the district attorney to bring the case before a grand jury last summer, resulting in the indictment on the class C felony grand larceny charge.

Majeski is represented by Hauppauge attorney John Manley.