Receiver Pleads Guilty to Theft of $6 Million from Fiduciary Funds

Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Miami Field Office, announced today that defendant Lewis B. Freeman, pled guilty before the U.S. District Court Judge Paul C. Huck to a one-count Information charging him with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.

Freeman is scheduled to be sentenced on May 13, 2010. At sentencing, Freeman faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison.