Legal Opinion
Alvarez v. United States
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided September 12, 2016No. Case No. 3:13-cv-174-J-32MCRPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs are the victims of a Ponzi scheme whose mastermind, Kenneth Wayne McLeod, committed suicide on June 22, 2010. For the most part, the plaintiffs are current or former federal law enforcement officers and their spouses from all over the country who met McLeod at one of many government-sponsored retirement seminars where he pitched his fraudulent bond fund. Many have lost their life savings. Now, plaintiffs seek to hold the United States liable for their losses under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Although there were numerous red…
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