Becomes, flla. (WFLA) – High development to recover $ 100 million. 8 On your side, it turns out that lawyers are now running a local bank.
67 -year -old Leo Govoni and his accountant John Witeck (60) in June. He was accused of fraud wire, a postal and money laundering scheme that lasted 15 years.
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Based on a complaint on Thursday, the Special Needs Trust Administration Center focused on the stolen money stolen through an elaborate invoice network, which took place in American Momdim Bank.
The complaint continued to state that the bank wanted to satisfy Govoni to be satisfied, “consciously supporting the Fiduciary duty.”
Leo Govoni does not take guilt for $ 100 million.
The missing money left disabled families where there was nothing left to provide their future care. Lawyers call it “classic ponzi-scheme”.
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The firm out claim is represented by 6,000 casualties across the country, which entrusted their money to the safety reception center from 2009 to 2024. These victims are permanently disabled children, victims of catastrophic injuries and medical misconduct and people suffering from serious mental illness.
The center gave its funds to storage of American Momdim Bank, especially at the bank city center branch on the Western Kennedy Boulevard in Todd.
The complaint states: “Instead of protecting these essential funds, which the recipients of confidence rely on their basic needs, the bank has facilitated a decade -long fraud and theft scheme that Leo Govoni, a former director of the center, helped others with special needs trust accounts.”
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The lawyers said it then allowed Govoni to finance other businesses of its business and, among other things, buy real estate, private jet and box of boxes in Kentucky derby and the Lightning of the Bay of Tensea. “
The court’s records stated: “The bank allowed the center to attach the bank logo to the false account statements sent to the beneficiaries; allowed the wires from the central account from the central account of Govoni’s Cronies, which had no authority to transfer the center funds; and taxed thousands of thousands of dollars for administrative fees for all Govoni various business accounts to the center.
The lawyers said the bank had allowed Govoni to deduct the money with special needs – everyone, as long as the center’s staff, sought to cover the cost of housing and medical care. The center then submitted the bankruptcy of Chapter 11 in 2024. February
He said lawyers led their theft through the American Mommy Bank and overseen more than 140 accounts, including the center and their own business.
The Sirpaya included a combination of John Stanton, the founder of the center, John Stanton and Govoni, LJ Govoni and Caitlin Govoni Janicki.
When 8 on your side reported the bankruptcy of the center for the first time, we were told that a letter was found.
According to the bankruptcy application, the unsigned letter, which, according to bankruptcy proceedings, left Govoni’s daughter Caitlin Janicki after her resignation in 2022. April She served as Vice President. The center said he did not know why Janicki had left, but it all started.
8 On your side, Govoni and his son LJ Govoni, formerly five Big Storm breweries and tapers that closed one by one and encountered evictions and lawsuits, also said.
June In a lawsuit filed, the investor stated that they both used their brewery as a front for financial fraud and theft.
8 In your lateral investigator, Brittany Muller has contacted three lawyers representing American Mumkum Bank and we haven’t heard it yet.
All this new information is the question: will we see more criminal accusations in this case and when will we see? These will be federal prosecutors. June The Florida Secondary District Prosecutor’s Office in Florida County in June, and in this indictment, in addition to those two, as well as “others known and unknown to the big jury”, so in this case they investigate all that could be involved.
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