“Diabolical scheme”: Inside the guilty pleas in Hammocks fraud that topped $11M

More than $11 million were diverted from the Hammocks homeowners associations, more than five times the amount prosecutors originally tracked as misappropriated funds when they filed charges almost four years ago, authorities revealed.  The money was taken from about 18,000 residents who live in the Hammocks and pay assessments to the HOA, which is South Florida’s largest association and the second biggest in the state.  The newly revealed depth of the theft was announced on Thursday shortly after the ringleader of the scheme, former board President Marglli Gallego, and her husband, Jose Antonio Gonzalez, pleaded guilty to charges for their […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.