FLORIDA
A currently imprisoned Florida businessman was sentenced to an additional 20 months in prison today for willfully omitting assets, a boat, Mercedes and cash, from a pre-sentencing financial disclosure form he provided to the Justice Department, officials announced this week.
According to documents filed with the court, Casey Padula, 51, formerly of Port Charlotte, Florida, made the false statements on a financial disclosure statement he was required to submit to the government after pleading guilty to tax and bank fraud.
On July 17, 2017, in the prior prosecution, Padula was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit bank fraud.
Padula admitted he used offshore entities and accounts to commit the tax fraud and carried out the bank fraud by conducting a fraudulent short-sale transaction designed to reduce or eliminate his $1.5 million mortgage.
As part of his plea agreement, Padula was required to provide a full and accurate financial disclosure statement to the government.
Instead, Padula submitted a false financial disclosure statement in which he omitted numerous assets, including a boat valued at almost $340,000, at least $80,000 in cash, and a $90,000 Mercedes he had recently purchased for his daughter.