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and Video Courtesy of CBS Channel 4 Miami
By CBS Team
Published April 20, 2021
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MIAMI – Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez
Rundle announced Thursday the arrest of Hammocks Community Association
(HCA) President and former Treasurer Marglli Gallego after a three-year
investigation revealed that she diverted over $100,000 for her personal
use.
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Investigators said Gallego was the HCA Treasurer from
2015 to 2017, when she assumed her current position as president.
“The activities which have led to the arrest of Marglli Gallego for
allegedly abusing her position as President of the Hammocks Community
Association are not only unneighborly, they are crimes,” said State
Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
“Thanks to the work of my Economic Crimes Unit and the Miami-Dade Police
Department’s Economic Crimes Unit, we were able to put an end to
Gallego’s actions which personally benefitted her financially at the
expense of law-abiding homeowners. The Miami Dade Police Department and
my prosecutors are committed to investigating and arresting those
individuals who would use Homeowners Association funds as their own
personal wallets.” |
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Investigators said that from November 2016 to early
2017, Gallego is suspected of redirecting HCA funds totaling $49,826 to
a private investigations firm, KP Assurance, for surveillance work on a
home Gallego owns with her husband outside of the Hammocks community.
It is also alleged that Gallego made numerous personal charges on the
association’s credit card without the required authorization of the HCA.
Investigators say that from November 2016 to March 2018, Gallego
utilized a total of $59,716.51 for her personal use.
Gallego is facing one count of organized scheme to defraud and one count
of grand theft.
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