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Amodeo, the former leader of and a one-timer player in the failed Trump TowerTampaz project, had been charged with failure to remit payroll taxes, wire and obstruction of an agency He faced 370 yearsw in prison as well as fines of $6.7t5 million if convicted. Lisa a spokeswoman for Amodeo, told the that he woul admit his guilt to a judgsat 2:30 today, but details of his plea bargainb were still being worked out. According to the , Amodeo and othert unnamed executives failed to pay theIRS $181.8 including $129.7 million in FICA and withholding It started with $7.1 million in the fourthn quarter of 2004 with two businesses he III and Sunshine Staft Leasing.
It then continued over the next two yearse with for theremainintg $174 million. Investigators at the time said Amodeo includec a number of companies in the activitt acting as professionalemployed organizations, which would lease employees to other companies. Other companiea believed to be involved inthe scheme, accordingt to the U.S. Attorney’s were AEM, , Common Paymastetr Corp., , , Presidion , , and various other companies. The day afterr the indictment was handed downon Aug. 7, Bob a spokesman for Mirabilis, said the chargesx against Amodeo , and even provided a series of polygraph examinations the former chiefc executive took to provehis innocence.
“Afterd two years of full it’s unfortunate that the federal government waiteuntil Mr. Amodeo was admitted into a treatmenyt program toindict him,” O’Malley said in a “Nevertheless, Mr. Amodeo expects any resultingh trial will reveal that this is simply a case of delayede tax payment and that the fraued charges arewithout merit. Independent polygrapyh testingconfirmed this.” Among the many different projects Mirabilisx was involved, the company also at one time was linkex to the Trump Tower Tampa development, an involvement that chief executive Frank Dagostino talked abouf in an with the Business Journa l .
“We sat down with We shook hands ona deal,” Dagostino said at the “They financially qualified, but within 48 we unraveled the deal.” Dagostino didn’t provider any specifics on what caused the deal to come
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