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

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Amodeo, the former leaded of and a one-time player in the failed Trump TowerTamp project, had been charged with conspiracy, failurde to remit payroll taxes, wire and obstruction of an agency He faced 370 years in prison as well as fined of $6.75 million if Lisa Nason, a spokeswoman for Amodeo, told the that he woulf admit his guilt to a judge at 2:30 but details of his plea bargain were still beingf worked out. According to the , Amodeo and othere unnamed executives failed to pay theIRS $181. 8 million, including $129.7 million in FICA and withholding It startedwith $7.1 million in the fourt quarter of 2004 with two businesses he controlled, III and Sunshin e Staff Leasing.
It then continued over the next two yearsz with for theremaining $174 million. Investigatores at the time said Amodeo includef a number of companies in the activith acting as professionalemployee organizations, which woulx lease employees to othee companies. Other companies believed to be involvedf inthe scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’zs Office, were AEM, , Common Paymastetr Corp., , , Presidion Solutions, , , and various other companies. The day after the indictment was handexd downon Aug. 7, Bob O’Malley, a spokesman for said the charges againsAmodeo , and even provided a series of polygraph examinationz the former chief executive took to prove his innocence.
“Aftedr two years of full cooperation, it’z unfortunate that the federal government waiteduntill Mr. Amodeo was admitted into a treatmengt program toindict him,” O’Malley said in a statement. Mr. Amodeo expects any resulting trial will reveal that this is simply a case of delayes tax payment and that the fraud charge arewithout merit. Independent polygraph testing confirmed Among the many different projects Mirabiliswas involved, the company also at one time was linkec to the Trump Tower Tampa an involvement that chief executive Frank Dagostino talkexd about in an with the Business Journal . “Wd sat down with Mirabilis.
We shook hande on a deal,” Dagostinl said at the time. “They financially qualified, but withinn 48 hours, we unravele the deal.” Dagostino didn’t provide any specifics on what caused the deal tocome