Tenants, son slam soft-serve king accused in multimillion-dollar ticket scam
Accused ice-cream “cone” artist Dimitrios Tsirkos has a freezer full of problems.
The soft-serve king, whose fleet of trucks got scooped up last week after he was charged with ducking $4.5 million in parking and traffic tickets, has angered a residential tenant and lost touch with his adult son.
The two are also being sued over a 2014 car crash involving a vehicle registered to the father.
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All while Tsirkos, 58, the owner of New York Ice Cream, is living large in a spiffed-up two-family home in Flushing.
A tenant at the six-unit, $710,000 building Tsirkos owns in Woodside says the apartment he rents from him is crawling with mice.
“They come here all night and I cannot sleep,” said the resident at 41-29 53rd Street, who declined to provide his name, claiming he feared retaliation.
He claimed Tsirkos won’t fix broken appliances in his unit.
“Believe me he is very bad,” the man said.
Lazaros Tsirkos, 25, said he hadn’t spoken to his father in two years.
“I don’t really talk to my dad,” he said. “We don’t really speak because of a lot of things that happened growing up.”
Both father and son are named in the accident complaint filed in Queens Supreme Court.
The cone dealer’s own home — a split-family house — sports renovated stonework, a large metal gate and an ornamental facade featuring a sun motif and the Greek letters Delta and Tau, a monogram representing his first and last names.
His Facebook postings show a trim man with curly black hair partying with friends and family, posing in front of one of his ice cream trucks and dancing at a banquet hall where the floor is strewn with cash.
Tsirkos divorced his first wife, Keriake Tsirkos, in 2001, court records show. He’s now married to Nektaria Otta.
Last week the city seized more than 40 of Tsirkos’ ice cream trucks after he allegedly dodged thousands of unpaid summonses for speeding, running red lights and parking in front of fire hydrants.
A Civil Court complaint filed by the city claims that Tsirkos along with five other New York Ice Cream vendors owe a combined $4.5 million for violations over nearly a decade.
Calls to him and his lawyers were not returned.
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