Florida Lt. Governor Resigns Amid Allegations of $300 Million Web Cafe Scam
Florida Lt. Governor Resigns Amid Allegations of $300 Million Web Cafe Scam
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll is just one of more than 50 people who’ve been questioned in a massive web cafe scam investigation amid allegations that the general public relations company of which she is co-owner did PR for Allied Veterans, which apparently fronted for the scam. Although not by herself charged with any wrongdoing in the unfolding scandal, Carroll stepped down from her post immediately, stating that although her PR firm was also perhaps not alleged to have been involved, she don’t want her ties to Allied to be a distraction to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s management.
Lawyer was Mastermind
Still a developing story, it would appear that 49-year-old Jacksonville lawyer Kelly Mathis had been the mastermind behind an enormous gambling ring that used Allied Veterans being a front to skim $300 million from Internet cafes in 23 Florida counties, too as six states.
Allied Veterans of the World, an organization that is nonprofit to aid veterans and in operation since 1979, is the target of the investigation. The group operated 49 Internet cafes in Florida between 2007 and 2012, and the ones cafes introduced some $300 million in revenues. The majority of that money should have gone to assist veterans in V.A. hospitals and clinics with their rehabilitation, but in reality, only $6 million of the take that is total a simple 2 percent, finished up being reported as charitable dona