Executives convicted in $5M economic development scam

Leaders of VR Labs convicted by federal jury on multiple counts of defrauding Lee County of $4.7 million in economic development grant funds.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:13 a.m. February 28, 2019
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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FORT MYERS — A federal jury found three people connected with VR Laboratories guilty of defrauding Lee County of $4.7 million in economic development grant funds. 

 

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