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Miami property developer took out multiple unsuccessful hits on estranged wife, before his suicide, as cops closed in – multimillionaire was displeased she turned down $20M settlement, hitman reveals

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Late millionaire Miami property developer&comma; Sergio Pino&comma; 67&comma; took out multiple unsuccessful hits on his wife of 30 years after she filed for divorce in 2022 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Feds have accused Pino of hiring multiple men to stalk and poison his estranged wife before the June 23 attempt&comma; that failed because his 26-year-old daughter Alessandra unknowingly foiled the plan  <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>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 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Pino shot himself on July 16&comma; in the bedroom of his &dollar;8million Coral Gables mansion as police closed in on him <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Alleged hitman Vernon Green&comma; 53&comma; has been charged for the last failed attempt on June 23 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Nine people&comma; including Green&comma; have been allegedly involved in Pino&&num;8217&semi;s plots <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Six suspects have been charged with murder-for-hire&comma; others face charges for stalking and arson&comma; with all facing up to life in prison<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Sergio-Pino-andl-his-estranged-wife-Tatiana-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469743" style&equals;"width&colon;831px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Uber wealthy builder Sergio Pino &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; has been accused of sending a man to kill his estranged wife &comma; Tatiana&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&period; The hit was only averted because his 26-year-old daughter Alessandra unknowingly foiled the plan on June 23<&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A millionaire property developer made several futile attempts have his wife killed&comma; before dying himself in the aftermath&period; Sergio Pino&comma; 67&comma; police said&comma; took out multiple failed contracted hits before the feds closed in on him with fatal consequences&period;<br>The last of the multiple unsuccessful hits the Miami based property developer took out on estranged wife was foiled when his 26-year-old daughter Alessandra unknowingly foiled the plan on June 23&period; <br>With Authorities on to him&comma; Pino killed himself as cops closed in<br>&&num;8216&semi;Please&comma; someone with a gun is here&comma;&&num;8217&semi; a frantic Alessandra can be heard telling the 911 operator at the time in a recording from the June event&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He just pointed a gun at me&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re still here&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Authorities believe Pino arranged the murder plot several times beginning in July 2022 by hiring multiple men and even tried to poison Tatiana with fentanyl&comma; police said&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve been in law enforcement for 27 years&comma; and something like this … it seemed like something out of a Hollywood movie&comma; but this was unfortunately real life&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Pinecrest Police Department Chief Jason Cohen told <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxnews&period;com&sol;us&sol;millionaire-posh-florida-suburb-hired-hitmen-several-times-kill-wife-including-poison-plot-police" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Fox News Digital<&sol;a>&period;<br>Federal authorities have accused Pino of hiring multiple men to stalk and poison his wife before the June 23 attempt&comma; which saw alleged hitman Vernon Green&comma; 53&comma; being charged&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Sergio-Pino-andl-his-estranged-wife-Tatiana-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469744" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Feds have accused Pino &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; of hiring multiple men to stalk and poison his wife Tatiana &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; before the June 23 attempt&period; Arranging several murder plot targeting Tatiana beginning in July 2022&comma; hiring multiple hit men and once trying to poison her with fentanyl<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Threats made against Tatiana Pino and her sister&comma; including arson and a hit-and-run&comma; led to the arrests of four men&comma; including one of Sergio Pino’s household employees&comma; earlier this year&period;<br>A year earlier&comma; a hitman allegedly rammed a rented Home Depot truck into her car in her driveway&period; Cohen said the driver had been waiting for Tatiana to come home&period; <br>The investigation began after this incident after police were &&num;8216&semi;made aware of a lot of the background of what had been going on with Mrs&period; Pino&comma; the accusations of her being poisoned or drugged by potentially her soon-to-be ex-husband&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Cohen revealed&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;It was brought to our attention that this incident here was likely much more than just somebody crashing into her while she&&num;8217&semi;s coming home&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told the outlet&period; &&num;8216&semi;It started to make sense that this was just another piece in that big puzzle&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Avery-Bivins-left-and-Fausto-Villar-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469749" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>In July&comma; Avery Bivins&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; agreed to cooperate with authorities and made a recorded phone call to Fausto Villar&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; who he said recruited him&period; Feds moved arrested Pino and Villar after a controlled phone call implicating the co-conspirators<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Nine people in all it is alleged&comma; have been involved in Pino&&num;8217&semi;s plots&period; <br>The roll of suspects arrested include Vernon Green&comma; Bayron Bennett&comma; 33&comma; Fausto Villar&comma; 42&comma; Avery Bivins&comma; 36&comma; Clementa Johnson&comma; 47&comma; Diori Barnard&comma; 47&comma; Jerren Keith Howard&comma; 38&comma; Michael Jose Dulfo&comma; 42 and 27-year-old Edner Etienne&period;<br>Six suspects have been charged with murder-for-hire&comma; while the others face charges for stalking and arson&comma; according to Fox News Digital&period; <br>All face a maximum penalty of life in prison&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tatiana-Pino-with-her-daughter-Alessandra-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469752" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Tatiana &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; avoided impending death on June 23&comma; when daughter Alessandra &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; called police on June 23 after finding a man with a gun in her home<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Sergio Pino&comma; the founder of Century Homebuilders Group and a high-profile Miami-Dade County builder and political donor of decades&comma; had denied any involvement in the incidents involving his wife&period;<br>In July one suspect&comma; Avery Bivins&comma; agreed to cooperate with authorities and made a recorded phone call to the man he said recruited him for the hit&comma; according to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcmiami&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;sergio-pino-murder-for-hire-fbi-recordings&sol;3433954&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">NBC Miami<&sol;a>&period; <br>Bivins called Villar&comma; 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&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;It’s going to be good&comma; everything gonna be straight&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told Villar&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Straight&period; But the f&ast;&ast;king smoke has to clear&period; Everything has to clear&comma; smoke has to clear&period; So with what you got&comma; try to fend off&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Villar replied&period; <br>Villar had expressed worry the feds were already onto their plot as several of the nine were already being arrested&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Why would you&comma; if you get pinched&comma; they’re going to have&comma; this becomes now a conspiracy&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told Bivins on the phone&period; &&num;8216&semi;Now you can’t shake the rap&period; Your two boys now&comma; or whoever the f&&num;8212&semi; they are&comma; they can shake the rap&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"HfoRAVhiz-I&quest;rel&equals;0" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;HfoRAVhiz-Irel0" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;HfoRAVhiz-Irel0&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;HfoRAVhiz-Irel0&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;You should erase your &OpenCurlyQuote;gram&period; You erase your &OpenCurlyQuote;gram&period; You delete…delete&period; Do that for me&comma; erase that&period; And then&comma; I’m going to go Zero Dark Thirty on this s&ast;&ast;t for a while&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>The pair then discussed a counter strategy in the case of feds showing up at Bivins door&comma; with Villar saying&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We need a plan where&comma; let’s say&comma; God forbid&comma; they knock on your door one day or like whatever the case&comma; someone’s got to let me know through here&comma; like a code or something&comma; yo&period;&&num;8217&semi; However&comma; shortly after that decoy phone call&comma; feds moved in to arrest Pino and Villar&period;<br>According to the FBI&comma; Villars had paid Bivins &dollar;75&comma;000 upfront of the &dollar;150&comma;000 contract to murder Tatiana&period; The hitman was due an additional &dollar;150&comma;000 as bonus&comma; on the successful completion of the hit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Sergio-Pino-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469759" style&equals;"width&colon;843px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Sergio Pino was the president and CEO of Century Homebuilders Group&comma; based in Florida<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Sergio-Pinos-waterfront-mansion-in-Coral-Gables-Florida-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469753" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Pino and Tatiana were married for 30 years before she filed for divorce in April 2022&comma; after she thought he had tried to poison her&period; In July&comma; Pino shot himself in the bedroom of his &dollar;8million waterfront Coral Gables mansion &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; rather than be taken into custody&comma; as police closed in<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Sergio-Pinos-waterfront-mansion-in-Coral-Gables-Florida-2-1024x574&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469757"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Cops secure the crime scene after Sergio Pino killed himself inside the Coral Gables home he&&num;8217&semi;d shared with Tatiana<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The investigation of Pino that began in 2023 came to an end on July 16&comma; when Pino shot himself in the bedroom of his waterfront Coral Gables mansion&comma; where Villar&&num;8217&semi;s wife&&num;8217&semi;s roofing company had done work on the &dollar;8 million property&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;It would appear he saw it was coming down&period; He likely thought he was going to get charged with this&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Cohen said&comma; adding &&num;8216&semi;It definitely&comma; in my opinion&comma; is very telling of someone with a guilty conscience&comma; but just my opinion of a 27-year veteran&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Pino and his wife were married for 30 years before she filed for divorce in April 2022 after she thought he had tried to poison her&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tatiana-Pino-with-her-daughters-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469751" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Pino&&num;8217&semi;s death may have ended the case against him&comma; but possibly due to the vastness of the conspiracy&comma; police continue to keep watch over Tatiana&&num;8217&semi;s home &&num;8216&semi;at least a few times day&comma;&&num;8217&semi; despite her husband&&num;8217&semi;s suicide<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The financial statements produced in a divorce case deposition of Sergio put the couple’s 2022 net worth at more than &dollar;153 million and as much as &dollar;359 million&period; Pino&&num;8217&semi;s motive for seeking his wife&&num;8217&semi;s death Bivins told the FBI that Villar said&comma; was that she turned down his &dollar;20 million divorce settlement offer&period;<br>Lawyers for Pino have slammed the &&num;8216&semi;level of law enforcement activity at his residence&&num;8217&semi; and said it was &&num;8216&semi;unnecessary&&num;8217&semi; considering &&num;8216&semi;we offered to surrender him&&num;8217&semi;&period;  His attorney Sam Rabin has said that the claims made against his late client are &&num;8216&semi;lacking&&num;8217&semi; evidence and are simply &&num;8216&semi;rumors and allegations&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Police continue to keep watch over Tatiana&&num;8217&semi;s home &&num;8216&semi;at least a few times day&comma;&&num;8217&semi; despite her husband&&num;8217&semi;s suicide&comma; Cohen said&period;  &&num;8216&semi;We have what&&num;8217&semi;s called a watch list … the officers will go by and just kind of do an exterior search to make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; &&num;8216&semi;That will continue for the foreseeable future just because there&&num;8217&semi;s still a lot of&comma; you know&comma; open and moving parts&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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