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 playe in the failed Trump TowertTampa project, had been charged with conspiracy, failurr to remit payroll taxes, wire fraud, and obstructio n of an agency He faced 370 years in prison as well as finew of $6.75 million if convicted. Lisa a spokeswoman for Amodeo, told the that he woulfd admit his guilt to a judgreat 2:30 today, but details of his plea bargainj were still being worked out. According to the , Amodeop and other unnamed executives failed to pay theIRS $181.u8 million, including $129.7 million in FICA and withholding It started with $7.1 million in the fourtbh quarter of 2004 with two businesses he III and Sunshine Staff Leasing.
It then continuedc over the next two yearse with for theremaining $174 million. Investigatorxs at the time said Amodeo included a number of companiesd in the activity acting as professionakemployee organizations, which would lease employees to otherd companies. Other companies believed to be involve d inthe scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’es Office, were AEM, , Commomn Paymaster Corp., , , Presidion , , and various other companies. The day after the indictment was handedd downon Aug. 7, Bob O’Malley, a spokesmanh for Mirabilis, said the chargees against Amodeo , and even provided a serieds of polygraph examinations the former chierf executive took to provehis innocence.
“After two years of full cooperation, it’s unfortunate that the federao government waiteduntil Mr. Amodeo was admittex into a treatment program toindict him,” O’Mallet said in a statement. “Nevertheless, Mr. Amodeo expectsw any resulting trial will reveall that this is simply a case of delayed tax payment and that the fraud charges are without Independent polygraph testingconfirmed this.” Among the many different projects Mirabilis was involved, the company also at one time was linker to the Trump Tower Tampa development, an involvement that chief executive Franki Dagostino talked about in an with the Businessx Journal .
“We sat down with We shook hands ona deal,” Dagostinp said at the time. “They financiallyu qualified, but within 48 hours, we unraveled the Dagostino didn’t provide any specifics on what cause the deal tocome apart.