The Business Journal (Tampa Bay Florida)
October 27, 2010 Wednesday
Tampa businessman Brian Marshall charged with passing bad checks
BYLINE: Jane Meinhardt
Tampa businessman Brian M. Marshall was arrested on a Nevada fugitive warrant Tuesday and booked at the Hillsborough County Jail.
Marshall, founder of defunct Fireline Restoration Inc. in Tampa and its successor Initech Restoration Inc., is wanted in Clark County, Nev., on charges of passing $44,000 in worthless checks with the intent to defraud, according to the criminal complaint.
Clark County is the site of the famous Las Vegas Strip of hotels and casinos.
The criminal complaint alleges Marshall issued five bad checks between May 30 and June 10 to obtain cash and/or gaming chips at Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino.
Marshall, a general contractor, listed his occupation on jail records as chief executive officer of QCI, a Tampa Bay area disaster restoration business.
His local address listed on the booking report is the same as Capital Resources LLC, one of his dissolved companies.
Jail is the latest of Marshall's troubles. Lenders have repossessed his Gulfstream jet, his 45-foot yacht and exotic cars, including a Bentley and a Porsche.
In November 2009, Marshall filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization for Initech, Marshall Investments LLC, Marshall Aviation LLC, Villas of Tampania LLC and four other of his companies.
Court records show the bankruptcies were converted to Chapter 7 liquidation in April.
Also last November, the U.S. Securities and Exchange filed a federal civil complaint against Marshall and some of his associates, alleging Home Solutions of America and some of its executives orchestrated "a fantasyland of fraud" to inflate the company's stock price.
Marshall sold Fireline Restoration to Home Solutions in 2006, reportedly in a $50 million deal, and became a director and president of the New Orleans-based company.
The SEC alleges in its complaint that Marshall and others at Home Solutions "engaged in a series of revenue-inflation schemes, booking millions of dollars of bogus revenue by invoicing and recording receivables on work that never occurred."
The civil complaint against Marshall is unresolved, federal court records show. |
