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 Two Bronx men were accused Wednesday of masterminding a brazen bank fraud scheme in which they ripped off churches, hospitals and charities by recruiting 950 “soldiers” to cash bogus checks.

Jasper Grayson, 25, and James Malloy, 26, are accused of cashing millions of dollars in counterfeit checks they had dummied with customer information obtained from crooked bank tellers.

Authorities said Grayson’s laptop computer was plugged into a cigarette lighter and connected to a printer when he and Malloy were busted in a car in the Bronx.

The laptop contained check-making software, stolen bank account info and logos used on counterfeit checks, officials said.

Using payroll stubs they’d purchased from employees, the counterfeiters hacked into more than 300 accounts, including those of Madison Square Garden, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Harlem Children’s Zone, Montefiore Medical Center and even the NYPD, authorities said.

“Grayson or Malloy would create the checks using specialized computer software, scanners, printers, check stock, magnetic ink and company logos found on the Internet,” Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said.

They then had their recruits deposit the checks made out to them in newly opened accounts at banks across the city. The associates would then withdraw money and share it with Grayson and Malloy.

The NYPD was tipped off to the scheme last year after the department’s property clerk’s office found several checks that couldn’t be accounted for. So far, 18 people have been charged, though many more arrests are likely, Morgenthau said.

The ringleaders both have criminal records, Morgenthau said, with Malloy having pleaded guilty to federal charges in February for a similar scam and Grayson having a drug rap.

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“This seemed like a more profitable and less dangerous operation,” he said.

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