Unsealed indictment into Britton-Harr details alleged brazen $14.7M fraud

In the most revealing picture yet of what happened at AeroVanti, Maryland prosecutors lay out the scheme in court filings.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 7:10 p.m. May 30, 2025
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  • Manatee-Sarasota
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In early 2023, Patrick Britton-Harr reached out to a group of investors in his private jet membership company AeroVanti to request a loan.

The money, he told them, was to go toward the purchase of an aircraft known as N290BC.

 

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