False filing alleged

February 17, 2009 04:00 am

COOPERSTOWN _ A Springfield Center man was arrested Wednesday for filing false documentation with the Otsego County Court, Otsego deputies said.

Thomas A. Niznik, 34, was charged with first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a felony, and second-degree falsifying business records, a misdemeanor, deputies said.

He is on felony probation and filed paperwork with false information, causing a false entry in court records, deputies said.

Further information could not be provided because of privacy regulations, a court official said.

Niznik, who was being held without bail on a violation of probation charge in Otsego County jail, faces up to four years on the recent charges, deputies said.

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