Posted on 02/28/2018 6:01:37 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A married couple last week admitted to using the lounge in an operation that stole millions of dollars, using shadow bank accounts to loot funds intended for Miami-Dade’s Aviation Department. Former Club America account manager Elena Iglesias, and her contractor husband, Lazaro Iglesias, pleaded guilty to organized fraud, grand theft, and two counts of money laundering. After they surrender next month, they’ll each serve three years in prison and have to pay $2.6 million in restitution. Once out, they’ll be placed on 10 years of probation.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article202385959.html#storylink=cpy
I wonder (1) whether this couple that can afford to repay $2.6M will want to surrender, and (2) how much of the stolen money they get to keep even if they pay that fine.
So who was doing the audits of the Airport Authority? Do you think a special audit might be in order? Who knows what else might turn up if it was looked at by anyone who actually cared about the situation.
I am not sure of the specifics in relation to your question; however, I do recall another scheme at MIA in recent years.
MIAMI - The director of Miami International Airport’s Terminal Maintenance Division has been charged in a $5 million airport fraud and kickback scheme.
Court documents show that Ivan Valdes, 46, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of bribery, bid tampering, official misconduct and money laundering.
According to a federal complaint, Valdes used his position from 2010 to 2015 to manipulate the bid process for light fixture vendors hoping to provide services at MIA.
Creative was to steal.
The victims will leave within a couple of hours and be dispersed all over the planet.
<>Seems like there is a banker in this deal who should also get jerked up short and be exposed. Color me cynical.
Of course there’s a gratuitous dig at “Trump aides,” which is wholly irrelevant to this article.
Oh, yeah. They had to work that in there, even on a totally unrelated story.
Illegals?
South Florida is the Silicon Valley of criminal schemes.
The mafia run Port Everglades.
Hmm, I do not see that quote in the article.
It is near the middle of the article:
While money laundering can take many forms — usually the vague-sounding stuff of TV crime dramas or investigations of former Trump campaign aides — the lounge scam was straightforward.
It's there - from the link in the OP -
While money laundering can take many forms — usually the vague-sounding stuff of TV crime dramas or investigations of former Trump campaign aides — the lounge scam was straightforward.
So.... the get to keep the $23 million they have hidden?
If you steal $100, you’re in trouble. If you steal, $100M, you seem to do just fine under the unfortunate system that is supposed to protect us from criminals.
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