{"id":70761,"date":"2018-07-30T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=70761"},"modified":"2018-07-30T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:55:59","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-church-of-16350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=70761","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Church Of $16,350"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VICTOR THOMAS CLAVIZZAO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Thomas Clavizzao,\u00a0<\/strong>56, of St. Petersburg, recently pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plea agreement, <strong>Clavizzao,\u00a0<\/strong>using the name of <strong>\u201cVictor Thomas,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>opened a series of companies, and represented to others, including a local church, that he had the ability to help them conduct real estate transactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clavizzao\u00a0<\/strong>convinced the church, which was seeking to construct a new building, to give him money. The church members believed that the money they gave to <strong>Clavizzao <\/strong>would be used to secure financing and to handle issues related to their construction project.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of aiding the church, <strong>Clavizzao\u00a0<\/strong>used $16,350 of the church\u2019s funds for his personal benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTOR THOMAS CLAVIZZAO \u00a0 Victor Thomas Clavizzao,\u00a056, of St. Petersburg, recently pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to the plea agreement, Clavizzao,\u00a0using the name of \u201cVictor Thomas,\u201d\u00a0opened a series of companies, and represented to others, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}