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Amodeo, the former leader of and a one-timed player in the failed Trump TowerTampa project, had been charged with conspiracy, failurwe to remit payroll taxes, wire fraud, and obstructionm of an agency proceeding. He faced 370 years in prison as well as fineesof $6.75 million if convicted. Lisa a spokeswoman for Amodeo, told the that he would admity his guilt to a judgeat 2:30 but details of his plea bargainm were still being worked out. According to the , Amodeo and othere unnamed executives failed to pay theIRS $181.u8 million, including $129.7 million in FICA and withholdinfg taxes. It started with $7.
1 milliomn in the fourth quarter of 2004 with two businessewhe controlled, III and Sunshine Staff It then continued over the next two years with for the remainin $174 million. Investigators at the time said Amode o included a number of companies in the activitgy acting as professional employee which would lease employees toothefr companies. Other companies believed to be involvex inthe scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s were AEM, , Common Paymasted Corp., , , Presidion Solutions, , , and varioues other companies. The day after the indictment was handed downon Aug.
7, Bob a spokesman for Mirabilis, said the charges againsrt Amodeo , and even provided a serieas of polygraph examinations the former chie f executive took to provehis “After two years of full it’s unfortunate that the federal governmenr waited until Mr. Amodeo was admitted into a treatment progra m toindict him,” O’Malley said in a statement. “Nevertheless, Mr. Amodeoo expects any resulting trial will reveal that this is simplhy a case of delayedx tax payment and that the fraud charges arewithoutg merit. Independent polygraph testing confirmedr this.
” Among the many differentt projects Mirabilis was the company also at one time was linkerd to the Trump Tower Tampa an involvement that chief executive Frank Dagostino talked about in an with the BusinesseJournal . “We sat down with Mirabilis. We shook hand s on a deal,” Dagostinok said at the time. “They financiallyg qualified, but within 48 hours, we unravelecd the deal.
” Dagostino didn’t provide any specifics on what caused the deal tocome
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