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![]() Capoferri facing three court dates John Capoferri has a busy week ahead of him. Authorities have ordered the former Caruso’s Market owner to attend three preliminary hearings over the next seven days on three sets of criminal charges. On Oct. 30, Capoferri, 41, will stand trial on charges of allegedly passing bad checks to a contractor who had installed marble tiling in the bathrooms of Capoferri’s former home on the 100 block of W. Mermaid Lane. (The house went up for sheriff’s sale in the summer.) The plaintiff, Joel Gonzalez, is seeking $26,000 in damages. The trial is set for 8:30 a.m. in room 804 of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. Capoferri will stand trial again on Nov. 2 in U.S. District Court. A June 11 indictment alleges that Capoferri lied about his finances in a loan application filed with Valley Green Bank on May 18, 2008. According to the indictment, Capoferri allegedly posted collateral he did not have in exchange for a $190,000 loan to shore up his acquisition of Caruso’s Market. In his application for the bank loan, he claimed he was “owed $191,275.66 under an escrow agreement,” according to the indictment, but that money had already been “committed elsewhere.” The jury trial will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, 601 Market St. (Room 13-B). On Nov. 3, Capoferri will head back to the Criminal Justice Center for a preliminary hearing on charges of terroristic threats, forgery, obstruction of justice and theft. Capoferri allegedly borrowed $500,000 from Hill businessman Richard Maloumian last year and threatened him when he came to collect. The hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. in Room 1003.
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