A 32-year-old Honduran national pleaded guilty to running a rented-insurance scheme through an Orlando shell company, cashing roughly $3 million in payroll checks for cash crews while contractors looked the other way. The certificate of insurance was the lock. The cash was the door.
For nearly nine years, an Orlando plastering company sold a paper promise to hundreds of subcontractors: insurance certificates that looked real and a payroll channel that ran in cash. On May 6, 2026, a federal judge put numbers on what it cost.
By Elena Ruiz · May 6
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