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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 25, 2015
2015 Top Deals: Charlotte-Lee-Collier

The Mercato retail and office complex has come to be synonymous with Naples luxury, with its bevy of upscale restaurants, European design flare and high-end merchants.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2013
Discovery Senior Living, Kayne Anderson buy out GE's interest in Aston Gardens

The price equated to $145,237 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2011
Sunrise limited liability firm buys Palm Avenue marina land

A limited liability company led by Jim Inglis of Sunrise purchased 1.68-acre commercial parcel for $1.23 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 11, 2017
Former tech exec faces prison for fraud

Timothy Roberts founded Ybor City-based cloud-computing company Savtira.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2015
Embezzler sentenced to five years

Palmetto woman also ordered to pay $651,300 in restitution and forfeit $745,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 7, 2013
One-year prison term for Tampa housing official

Anthony Haynes must also pay back nearly $1 million in fraudulent gains.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 16, 2014
Executive pleads guilty to fraud

Anthony Michael Defeo of Punta Gorda pleaded guilty to wire fraud for a scheme to defraud investors on interstate road projects.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 8, 2024
Feds arrest Lee County resident, indict another for COVID fraud

Two Lehigh Acres men are facing decades in prison in unrelated cases that involve allegations of defrauding the Small Business Administration.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 21, 2025
Sarasota man indicted for running $36M Ponzi scheme in Naples

Brent Adam Seaman is accused of using investor money to pay off losses, falsifying records and buying a $165,000 Ferrari with the proceeds.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 14, 2016
Employee gets three years in prison for $1.1M scheme

Junipher Sayers, 34, of Cape Coral pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 24, 2018
Law firm, chasing demand, expands to new part of region

Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt was founded in 1924.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 29, 2015
NY private equity firm backs $80M Naples condo deal

A developer backed by private equity paid $80 million for land in Naples on which it plans to build a condo tower.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 14, 2021
Arkansas man charged in multimillion-dollar area event ticket scam

Federal grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old man for wire fraud after F.B.I. and the U.S. Dept. of Treasury investigation

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2014
Money manager pleads guilty

Naples money manager Blayne Davis, 33, pleaded guilty in connection with an investment scheme that cost investors $11 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2016
Naples man faked being an exec, stole $2.2M

Jeffrey Ihm plead guilty to impersonating executives.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 9, 2015
Interstate 75 scammer sentenced

A federal judge sentenced a Punta Gorda man to nine years in prison for wire fraud and to forfeit $5.7 million to victims of an Interstate 75 road-construction scam.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2018
Loan officer gets 18 months in $700K mortgage scam

Daniel Cardenas, 37, of Tampa, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a wire fraud scheme dating back to the early days of the housing bust that cost mortgage lenders up to $710,000 in losses.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 6, 2018
Machinery firm brings HQ, jobs to region

A large manufacturer of CNC wire bending machines plans to invest $4 million in a new Hillsborough County headquarters facility and hire 45 local workers. Automated Industrial Machinery Inc. will move to Tampa from Illinois.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2017
Tampa man on supervised release charged with wire fraud

Investors defrauded by scam

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2017
CEO impersonator sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison

Jeffrey Ihm posed as a business executive to defraud Wells Fargo, others.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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