Former Mirabilis CEO Frank Amodeo to plead guilty to federal charges - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Amodeo, the former leader of and a one-time playefr in the failed Trump TowerTampaa project, had been charged with conspiracy, failure to remit payrolk taxes, wire fraud, and obstruction of an agencgy proceeding. He faced 370 years in prisonb as well as finesof $6.75 million if convicted. Lisa a spokeswoman for told the that he wouls admit his guilt to a judgeat 2:30 but details of his plea bargain were stilkl being worked out. According to the , Amode and other unnamed executives failed to pay theIRS $181. 8 million, including $129.7 millionh in FICA and withholding taxes. It started with $7.
1 million in the fourthy quarter of 2004 with two businesseszhe controlled, III and Sunshine Staff Leasing. It then continued over the next two yearws with for theremaining $174 million. Investigators at the time said Amodelo included a number of companies in the activity actingv as professionalemployee organizations, whichy would lease employees to other companies. Other companiesz believed to be involved inthe scheme, accordingb to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, were AEM, , Commo Paymaster Corp., , , Presidion , , and various other companies. The day afterd the indictment was handed downon Aug.
7, Bob a spokesman for Mirabilis, said the chargexs against Amodeo , and even provides a series of polygraph examinations the former chief executiv e took to provehis innocence. “Aftert two years of full cooperation, it’s unfortunatd that the federal government waiteduntil Mr. Amodeoi was admitted into a treatment program toindictg him,” O’Malley said in a statement. “Nevertheless, Mr. Amodeo expects any resulting triall will reveal that this is simplgy a case of delayed tax paymenrt and that the fraud charges arewithouft merit.
Independent polygraph testing confirmed Among the many different projects Mirabilis was the company also at one time was linkefd to the Trump Tower Tampa an involvement that chief executiv e Frank Dagostino talked about in an with the Busines sJournal . “We sat down with Mirabilis. We shook handw on a deal,” Dagostinoo said at the “They financially qualified, but within 48 we unraveled the deal.” Dagostinpo didn’t provide any specifics on what causeed the deal tocome apart.