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Samir Cabrera, a Fort Myers real estate agent formerly with D’Alessandro and Woodyard, won’t face trial on four counts of wire fraud until October.
His attorney, John Mills, requested the postponement at a status conference in the case Monday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Fort Myers before Judge John Steele. The trial had been scheduled for early August.
Cabrera, 31, was indicted by a federal grand jury in late June in connection with two land deals in south Fort Myers along Fiddlesticks Boulevard.
The deals lost money for investors — one of whom was Cabrera’s father-in-law, Lee County Manager Don Stilwell. The indictment alleges that Cabrera embezzled more than $20,000 from the investment company. The indictment also alleges that undisclosed flips on the properties between two companies Cabrera controlled enriched him and his business partners while stripping more than $2 million from the investors.
The properties were located at 13701 and 13801 Fiddlesticks Boulevard, south of Daniels Parkway.
The properties were next door to a larger failed land deal for another group of Cabrera’s investors in a project called Daniels View. There have been allegations of fraud from investors in that deal as well, but no criminal charges are involved.
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