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Report from WPLG News 10 Features Condo Board President Pleading Guilty to Taking Illegal Payments from Association, Managing without License

Siegfried Rivera
May 7, 2015

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Investigative reporter Bob Norman from WPLG Local 10 News in South Florida has done a number of reports about fraud and theft at area condominium and homeowners associations. His most recent report is a follow up to a story that aired last September about the allegations by the residents of the Georgian Court North condominium in Fort Lauderdale against Ed Ryan, the longtime president of the association’s board of directors.

The residents had alleged that Ryan had taken hundreds of thousands in payments from the association that he knew were illegal over the course of more than 10 years. Ryan scampers away from Norman and his videographer to the bathroom outside of the courtroom when he is asked by the reporter to comment on the case. In court, he admits to taking the illegal payments and using some of the proceeds to buy a car, and he pleads guilty to the charges and is sentenced to complete 25 hours of community service, serve three months of probation, return the car and write a letter to the association admitting his wrongdoing. The residents tell Norman that they have also filed a civil suit seeking financial restitution from Ryan to the association.

Click below to watch the report.