Suggested Federal Hearing of the Family – Scottsdale.org

AAaron Wagner’s lawyers were busy last week.

After being authorized for a six -month delay in the federal process of their client, who faced more than a dozen charges of fraud, lawyers filed Wagner’s request to travel to Scottsdale.

Last year, at that time, the City Council replied Wagner’s request for resonance to allow a “new dining experience” called Swags in the entertainment neighborhood.

Wagner, a part of a part-time Scotsdale, who also plans to launch a bottled blonde in Gilbert, was bottled-behind the grilles for two weeks before being launched with a GPS monitoring device.

On October 24, 42-year-old Wagner was arrested and booked at Salt Lake City prison as a “federal detainee.”

Wagner’s business partner Michael Maines was arrested two weeks later.

The mistake and Wagner face 16 charges of cheating and money laundering.

According to an accusation raised by the US prosecutor’s office, Wagner “has created a scheme for fraud for private investors at restaurant companies.”

In the complaint, FBI agent Brad Simons said he was investigating Wagner and his various companies. Simons said he found that the WAGS Capital founder used $ 2 million from an investor intended for a restaurant endeavor to help buy a $ 8.3 million aircraft.

According to the federal complaint, Wagner would “show” his “lush lifestyle (including personal jets, exotic vehicles, luxury vacations, etc.) to make investors believe that he is a successful businessman.”

But according to the court document, “many of these success indicators have actually been funded by investor funds, which he has stolen from the enterprises themselves who have been intended to support.”

Three weeks ago, US judge Ted Stewart filed a proposal from Wagner’s defense lawyers Richard Van Wagoner to delay the Wagner process – initially scheduled for February 3 – at least six months.

According to the defense attorneys to delay the process, “the discovery of 16 supplied crime with white collars and the seizure of millions of dollars in property is voluminous with 68 alleged casualties and witnesses and includes extensive financial recordings, electronic records, including correspondence and extensive resumes In interviews conducted by law enforcement authorities. “

The delay was necessary, the lawyers said, as “the case includes many financial and business records about many persons, subjects and transactions.”

Federal prosecutors agreed that a delay was needed – and two weeks later did not oppose a request for a trip filed by Wagner’s lawyers.

Wagner has requested the court’s approval to travel from Utah “to visit with his mother to Mesa and his sister in Scottsdale.”

His plan was to leave Salt Lake City 6 February 6 and return today, February 9th.