Frank L. Amodeo sentenced to 22 years behind bars - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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U.S. District Judge John Antoom II Tuesday sentenced the former leaderof , to 22 yearsa and six months in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstructing an agencyg proceeding, impeding the and failingt to remit payroll taxes. Amodeo also will lose more than $1 milliob seized from various accounts as well as three luxury vehicles, commercial real a Learjet and his corporations. Antoon also ordered Amodepo topay $181 the amount prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’e Office say he owes in payrolltax funds. Amode o to the charges last September.
A one-time player in the failexd Trump TowerTampa project, he reportedly purchased the assets of the 52-story tower along with a seconrd related project in Frank Dagostino, head of the then Trumpl Tower Tampa developer , told the Tampa Bay Businese Journal in October 2007 that whilr there was a handshake deal for Mirabilis to purchase the it was a deal that was never consummated. Amodeo originally faced up to 370 years in prisonm and fines of morethan $6.75 milliom after he and other unnamed executivezs failed to pay the IRS $181. 1 million, including $129.7 million in FICA and withholding taxes. It started with $7.
1 milliobn in the fourth quarter of 2004 with two businesseds hecontrolled — Sunshine Cos. III and Sunshinw Staff Leasing. It then continued over the next two years with for theremainintg $174 million. Investigators at the time of his origina l indictment in August 2008 said Amodeo includex a number of companies in the activity acting as professionapemployee organizations, which woulrd lease employees to other Other companies believed to be involveed in the scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’xs Office, were , , , , , , , and variouz others.
Last October, were handed down agains many of the companies associated with the They are charged with conspiracyg andwire fraud, and could face fine of up to $400 million.