A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Bryan Sherbacow, the founder and <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aerospace/2023-02-08/former-nata-head-obitts-takes-reins-alder-fuels">former CEO</a> of sustainable fuel company Alder Fuels (now Alder Renewables), was sentenced this week to three years in prison after pleading guilty in February to wire fraud charges.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), between 2021 and 2022 Sherbacow illegally siphoned nearly $6 million from the company by transferring funds to his personal bank account without authorization and by making unauthorized personal expenditures from a company bank account.
The DOJ noted that he attempted to hide his crimes by emailing altered bank statements and other false documentation to Alder’s accounting firm and company board members. To raise additional funds for the company, Sherbacow authorized false documents to be sent to current and prospective investors. In response to this misleading financial information, three investors collectively invested $15 million.
According to the DOJ, the embezzled funds were used to pay for a vintage Mercedes-Benz sports car, a Range Rover SUV, art auction payments, personal tax liens, personal credit card payments, rent on personal residences, membership to a beach club, and a downpayment on a condominium.

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