By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-05 18:56:54 | Updated at 2024-12-22 17:05:37
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The staggering net worth of a Miami realtor who killed himself after multiple failed contracted hits on his estranged wife has now been revealed.
Sergio Pino, who died by suicide in July, was accused of sending a man to kill his estranged wife, Tatiana, until his 26-year-old daughter Alessandra unknowingly foiled the plan on June 23.
Authorities believe he arranged the murder plot several times beginning in July 2022 by hiring multiple men and even tried to poison her with fentanyl, police said.
While the couple had been fighting over the division of their assets for years since filing divorce, Sergio's four children, brother Carlos Pino and other business partners have now also begun to stake claim over his estate.
After months of review, the judge overseeing his estate's probate case has revealed Sergio's net worth to be $115 million at the time of his death.
This includes estimated value of cash, stock, real estate, yachts, luxury cars, businesses and other properties except real estate investments made by Sergio when alive, as estimated by a court-appointed curator.
It does not include the $43.8 million half-share of the Century Homebuilders Group LLC that passed on to Tatiana when he died.
Tatiana and Carlos had been clashing over who would be the next representative of the Group.
The net worth of Sergio Pino, a Miami realtor who killed himself after multiple failed contracted hits on his estranged wife, Tatiana has been revealed to be $115 million
As of now, Tatiana is running the Group — which is known to be the largest Hispanic-owned home builder in the US — as its representative.
According to the Miami Herald, the widow is now seeking a declaratory judgment to confirm that she owns the Group based on the fact that the couple held all of the company's equity among themselves as husband and wife.
Based on her claim, Tatiana and Sergio both owned the entire company when the couple were together and their joint interests could only be divided through a divorce decree or another agreement, the outlet explained.
She also claims that her husband 'executed a sham trust agreement — months before passing away — that purports to divest Tatiana of her (lawful) interest in CHG and illegally assign, transfer, and/or convey Decedent's membership shares in CHG (which belong to Tatiana upon his death) to the trust for the benefit of third parties. This was done without Tatiana's knowledge or consent,' according to NBC6.
But trustee, Pedro Hernandez, who was one of Sergio Pino's top lieutenants at the company says otherwise.
'Prior to Sergio's death, Tatiana claimed for years that she and Sergio each owned 50 percent of CHG. This is contrary to the position Tatiana now asserts in this action,' he told the channel.
The agreement allegedly named Carlos as the next representative of the Group.
Furthermore, the widow accuses her dead husband of 'dissipation and conversion of assets, fraud, usurping of business opportunities and failure to properly pay distributions to Ms. Pino, among other violations in respect to Decedent's management of CHG'.
Tatiana and Carlos have also been clashing over who will be the next representative of the dead relator's Century Homebuilders Group LLC
Based on her claim, Tatiana and Sergio both owned the entire company when the couple were together and their joint interests could only be divided through a divorce decree or another agreement
She also claims that Sergio 'misappropriated real estate development projects after 2013, including but not limited to Midtown Doral projects claimed by Decedent to own individually, which should have and do belong to CHG'.
A sum of $24,788.73 cash is the only cash amount that is not under review.
It is believed to be under the possession of the FBI who allege Sergio had already made a down payment to the 'murder crews' he had hired to kill his wife - promising them up to $300,000 if they got away with it without involving him in the investigation.
Federal authorities have previously accused Sergio of hiring multiple men to stalk and poison his wife before the June 23 attempt, which saw alleged hitman Vernon Green, 53, being charged.
Authorities believe he arranged the murder plot several times beginning in July 2022 by hiring multiple men and even tried to poison her with fentanyl, police said. Federal authorities have accused Pino of hiring multiple men to stalk and poison his wife before the June 23 attempt
The huge home as seen after the FBI raid where Sergio killed himself
A year earlier, a hitman allegedly rammed a rented Home Depot truck into her car in her driveway. Department Chief Jason Cohen said the driver had been waiting for Tatiana to come home.
The investigation began after this incident, when police were 'made aware of a lot of the background of what had been going on with Mrs. Pino, the accusations of her being poisoned or drugged by potentially her soon-to-be ex-husband,' Cohen told Fox News Digital.
'It was brought to our attention that this incident here was likely much more than just somebody crashing into her while she's coming home,' he told the outlet. 'It started to make sense that this was just another piece in that big puzzle.'
A total of nine people, including Green, have been allegedly involved in Pino's plots. Six have been charged with murder-for-hire, while the others face charges for stalking and arson, according to Fox News Digital.
Those arrested include Bayron Bennett, 33; Fausto Villar, 42; Avery Bivins, 36; Clementa Johnson, 47; Diori Barnard, 47; Jerren Keith Howard, 38; Michael Jose Dulfo, 42; and Edner Etienne, 27.
They all face a maximum penalty of life in prison.
In July, Bivins agreed to cooperate with authorities and made a recorded phone call to Villar, who he said recruited him. The feds moved into to arrest Pino and Villar after the phone call
Pictured: Edner Etienne, 27, Jerren Keith Howard, 38 and Michael Jose Dulfo, 42
Alessandra (pictured with her mother) called police on June 23 after finding a man with a gun in her home. She can be heard telling the 911 operator at the time. 'He just pointed a gun at me, they're still here'
A stretcher is taken out of the van, then wheeled inside to collect the body
In July, Bivins agreed to cooperate with authorities and made a recorded phone call to the man he said recruited him for the hit, according to NBC Miami.
Bivins called Villars, whom he met in a Florida state prison while the former was serving time for murder and armed robbery and the latter for just armed robbery.
'It's going to be good, everything gonna be straight,' he told Villar.
'Straight. But the f**king smoke has to clear. Everything has to clear, smoke has to clear. So with what you got, try to fend off,' Villar replied.
Villar had expressed worry the feds were already onto their plot as several of the nine were already being arrested.
'Why would you, if you get pinched, they’re going to have, this becomes now a conspiracy,' he told Bivins on the phone. 'Now you can’t shake the rap. Your two boys now, or whoever the f--- they are, they can shake the rap.
'You should erase your ‘gram. You erase your ‘gram. You delete…delete. Do that for me, erase that. And then, I’m going to go Zero Dark Thirty on this s**t for a while.'
They even discussed what would happen if the feds showed up at Bivins door, with Villar saying: 'We need a plan where, let’s say, God forbid, they knock on your door one day or like whatever the case, someone’s got to let me know through here, like a code or something, yo.'
During one incident, Tatiana struggled to breathe and had to intubated six times before doctors discovered that she had fentanyl in her system, divorce records revealed (pictured: Tatiana and Sergio in 2018)
In July, Sergio shot himself in a bedroom of his waterfront Coral Gables mansion
Police continue to keep watch over Tatiana's home 'at least a few times day,' despite her husband's suicide
The feds moved in to arrest Sergio and Villar after the phone call, according to NBC Miami.
Villars had paid Bivins $75,000 of the $150,000 contract to murder Tatiana.
If the murder was completed successfully, he would have received an additional $150,000 bonus, according to the FBI.
Later in July, Sergio shot himself in the bedroom of his waterfront Coral Gables mansion, where Villar's wife's roofing company had done work on the $8 million property.
'It would appear he saw it was coming down. He likely thought he was going to get charged with this,' Cohen told Fox News Digital. 'It definitely, in my opinion, is very telling of someone with a guilty conscience, but just my opinion of a 27-year veteran.'
The couple were married for 30 years before she filed for divorce in April 2022 after she began to suspect he had tried to poison her.
