A Monsey man has admitted his role in a voter fraud scheme to elect candidates in an Sullivan County village who would support his stalled development project, even going so far as to place toothbrushes and toothpaste in vacant apartments, officials said.

Kenneth Nakdimen, 64, pleaded guilty Thursday in White Plains federal court to conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Nakdimen, who is free on bail, faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 9.

"Fair elections are the bedrock of democracy," Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in a statement. "We will not allow greed to influence elections at any level."

CHARGED: Monsey man indicted in voter fraud case

The charge centered on the Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg, where authorities said Nakdimen, a real estate developer, had been trying to build and sell properties since 2006.

Nakdimen, who was indicted in December along with two other real estate developers, hoped to make hundreds of millions of dollars from these projects, officials said, but by late 2013 their first development hit a snag from local opposition.

Nakdimen tried to push the project through by falsely registering voters and bribing voters who would help elect public officials favorable to the development, authorities said. He created and back-dated false leases and placed items like toothbrushes and toothpaste in unoccupied apartments to make it seem like the falsely registered voters lived there, officials said.

Charges are pending against the other developers arrested in the case, Shalom Lamm and Volvy Smilowitz.

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