Bob Morgan Indicted On Federal Charges

Case 1:18-cr-00108-EAW-HKS Document 42 Filed 05/21/19 Page 1 of 57
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
For the Western District of New York

____________________________
NOVEMBER 2018 GRAND JURY

(Impaneled 11/02/2018)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT
-vs- 18-CR-108-EAW
ROBERT MORGAN Violations:

(Counts 1, 6-10, 14, 29, 38-39, 46-47, 56-65, 68-70, Title 18, United States Code,
80-90, 92-98, 100, 111, 114) Sections 1349, 1343, 1344, 1956(h) and 2
FRANK GIACOBBE (114 Counts and 3 Forfeiture
(Counts 1, 2-5, 11-19, 21-31, 33-37, 40, 42-45, 48- Allegations)
56, 58, 60, 64-65, 79-80, 83-88, 90-92, 94-96, 114)
TODD MORGAN
(Counts 1, 20-23, 29-36, 41-45, 49, 51-53, 66-79,
81-82, 89-90, 93-99, 101-110, 112-114)
MICHAEL TREMITI
(Counts 1, 76, 78, 114)
INTRODUCTION
The Grand Jury Charges That:
1. At all times relevant to this Indictment:
a. Morgan Management, LLC (“Morgan Management”), based in Pittsford,
New York, managed a portfolio of residential and commercial real estate properties owned
by limited liability companies associated with defendant ROBERT MORGAN. Grand
Atlas Property Management LLC (“Grand Atlas”) acquired Morgan Management in or
about the summer of 2018 and thereafter managed the real estate portfolio.
b. Aurora Capital Advisors, LLC, based in Buffalo, New York, was a
commercial real estate firm engaged in the business of brokering loans for borrowers seeking
financing for multi-family properties such as apartment complexes.
c. Defendant ROBERT MORGAN was the managing member and chief
executive officer of Morgan Management until its acquisition by Grand Atlas. In addition to
his role with Morgan Management, Defendant ROBERT MORGAN and entities he
controlled and managed owned a substantial portfolio of real estate holdings.
d. Defendant FRANK GIACOBBE owned and operated Aurora Capital
Advisors, identified himself as the Principal, and employed others to assist him in brokering,
and attempting to broker, real estate loans.
e. Defendant TODD MORGAN was a Project Manager at Morgan
Management until its acquisition by Grand Atlas.
f. Defendant MICHAEL TREMITI was the Director of Finance at Morgan
Management until its acquisition by Grand Atlas. After the acquisition, Defendant
MICHAEL TREMITI was a part owner of Grand Atlas and the Senior Vice President of
Finance through in or about the end of 2018.
g. Patrick Ogiony was employed by and worked for defendant GIACOBBE as
Managing Director at Aurora Capital Advisors.
h. Kevin Morgan was a Vice President at Morgan Management through in or
about May 2018.
i. Scott Cresswell was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Management
beginning in or about February 2016 through its acquisition by Grand Atlas. After the
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acquisition, Scott Cresswell was a part owner of Grand Atlas and the President and Chief
Executive Officer through in or about May 2019.
j. Morgan Services LLC ( “Morgan Services”), based in Farmington, New York
was a contracting business owned by defendant ROBERT MORGAN and his wife. Morgan
Services LLC dissolved in approximately December 2016 and was replaced by Morgan
Facilities LLC (“Morgan Facilities”), which conducted the same business as Morgan
Services and was also owned by defendant ROBERT MORGAN and his wife.
k. The Amherst Gardens Apartments (“Amherst Gardens”) was a multi-family
residential apartment complex located at 86 East Amherst Street, Buffalo, New York.
l. Chesed Properties Buffalo, LLC (“Chesed Properties”) was a limited liability
company formed to purchase Amherst Gardens.
m. The Avon Commons Apartments (“Avon Commons”) was a multi-family
residential apartment complex located at 597 Collins Street, Avon, New York.
n. Morgan Avon Apartments, LLC (“Morgan Avon”) was a limited liability
company formed to purchase Avon Commons.
o. The Eden Square Apartments (“Eden Square”) was a multi-family residential
apartment complex located at 9000 Old Station Road, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania.
p. Cranberry Vista Apartments, LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase Eden Square.
q. The Morgan Ellicott Apartments (“Morgan Ellicott”) was a multi-family
residential apartment complex located at 221 and 291 William Street, Buffalo, New York.
r. Morgan Ellicott Apartments, LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase Morgan Ellicott.
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s. The Rochester Village Apartments at Park Place (“Rochester Village”) was a
multi-family residential apartment complex located at 10100 Kettlecreek Drive, Cranberry
Township, Pennsylvania.
t. Park Place Pittsburgh, LLC (“Park Place”) was a limited liability company
formed to purchase Rochester Village.
u. The Rugby Square Apartments (“Rugby Square”) was a multi-family
residential apartment complex located at 215 Dorchester Avenue, Syracuse, New York.
v. Rugby Square, LLC was a limited liability company formed to purchase
Rugby Square.
w. The Reserve at Southpointe (“Southpointe”) was a multi-family residential
apartment complex located at 1000 Meadow Lane, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
x. The Reserve at Southpointe, LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase Southpointe.
y. The Villas of Victor was a multi-family residential apartment complex located
at 2000 Pebbleview Drive, Victor, New York.
z. The Villas of Victor, LLC was a limited liability company formed to purchase
the Villas of Victor.
aa. Park Place of South Park was a multi-family residential apartment complex
located at 1700 Patrick Place, South Park Township, Pennsylvania.
bb. Park Place of South Park Apartment Homes, LLC was a limited liability
company formed to purchase Park Place of South Park.
cc. Ellison Heights Apartments (“Ellison Heights”) was a multi-family residential
apartment complex located at 1200-A Penfield Road, Penfield, New York.
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dd. Ellison Heights Apartments LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase Ellison Heights.
ee. Union Square Apartments (“Union Square”) was a multi-family residential
apartment complex located at 59 Union Square Boulevard, Chili, New York.
ff. 59 Union LLC was a limited liability company formed to purchase Union
Square.
gg. The Links at Centerpointe Townhomes (“Links at Centerpointe”) was a
multi-family residential apartment complex located at 2227 Brickyard Road, Canandaigua,
New York.
hh. Morgan Canandaigua Land, LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase the Links at Centerpointe.
ii. The Lakes at 8201, formerly named the Summerwood Apartments, was a
multi-family residential apartment complex located at 8201 Polo Club Dr., Merrillville,
Indiana.
jj. Morgan Summerwood Apartments LLC was a limited liability company
formed to purchase The Lakes at 8201.
kk. Henrietta Highlands Apartments (“Henrietta Highlands”) was a multi-family
residential apartment complex located at 41 High Manor Drive, Henrietta, New York.
ll. Morgan Henrietta Highlands LLC was a limited liability company formed to
purchase Henrietta Highlands.
mm. The limited liability companies (“LLCs”) that purchased each of the
properties referenced above at paragraphs (l) through (ll) were owned by other LLCs
controlled or managed by one or more members of the conspiracy.
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nn. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as “Freddie Mac,”
and the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as “Fannie Mae,” were
government sponsored enterprises formed by the United States Congress to increase the
amount of money available in the mortgage lending market.
oo. Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC (“Arbor”) was a commercial real estate
financing company based in Uniondale, New York and was approved to sell and service
loans on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Entities such as Arbor that sell and service
loans on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are known within the commercial and
multi-family mortgage industry as “seller-servicers.” The seller-servicers issue the loans,
which are then purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The seller-servicers then
continue to service the loans after the sales to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
pp. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, LLC (“Berkadia”) was a commercial real
estate financing company based in Horsham, Pennsylvania and acted as a seller-servicer on
behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
qq. UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. (“UBS”) was a financial institution based in
New York, New York, and was a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG, a Swiss
global financial services company.
rr. M&T Bank was a financial institution based in Buffalo, New York.
ss. Evans Bank, N.A. was a financial institution based in Hamburg, New York.
tt. ESL Federal Credit Union (“ESL”) was a financial institution based in
Rochester, New York.
uu. Canandaigua National Bank & Trust (“Canandaigua National Bank”) was a
financial institution based in Canandaigua, New York.
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vv. Arbor, Berkadia, M&T Bank, Evans Bank, UBS, ESL and Canandaigua
National Bank were financial institutions, as that term was defined in Title 18, United States
Code, Section 20.
ww. Colliers International (“Colliers”) was a real estate services company that,
among other things, appraised multi-family properties.
xx. CBRE Group, Inc. (“CBRE”) was a real estate services company that, among
other things, appraised multi-family properties.
yy. Capstone Construction Services, LLC was a general contracting firm based in
Rochester, New York.
zz. York Risk was an insurance adjuster working on behalf of insurance
companies.
aaa. Prudential Asset Resources Inc. (“Prudential Asset Resources”) was a
company that serviced commercial mortgage loans.
bbb. A “rent roll” was a document listing, among other things: (1) all of the
tenants in a multi-family property during a specific time frame; (2) the amount of rent paid
by each tenant; and (3) the total rental income for the property during the time frame. The
rent roll often also included the date the tenant began occupying the apartment listed on the
rent roll.
ccc. A “trailing twelve statement,” commonly referred to as a “T12 statement” set
forth the income for a property each month for the preceding twelve months.
ddd. The “debt service coverage ratio” (“DSCR”) for a property was a ratio of a
property’s income to its debt obligations, and was an indicator of whether a property could
sustain its debt based on its income. Either increased income or decreased expenses on a
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property resulted in a higher DSCR, holding other variables constant. A lender relied upon
the DSCR in determining whether it would issue a loan, and thereafter continued to rely
upon it in assessing a borrower’s ability to meet its obligations going forward. If a loan
failed to meet a certain DSCR after closing, the loan could be considered in default,
providing the lender with contract-based options to protect itself.
THE MULTI-FAMILY PROPERTY MORTGAGE LENDING PROCESS
2. A multi-family property could be acquired by way of new construction or by
purchasing an existing multi-family property. New construction could be funded with a
short-term construction loan intended to finance the property during the period of
construction. Construction loans often required the developer to invest a percentage of its
own funds into the project before issuing the loan and drawing funds from the loan
proceeds. A construction loan was paid off by a permanent loan once its occupancy reached
a required threshold. As with construction loans, permanent loans required the borrower to
invest a percentage of its own funds.
3. Before a financial institution determined whether it would issue a permanent
loan on a multi-family property, it typically evaluated various factors, including determining
the property’s value by using the property’s income. Before issuing a construction loan, a
financial institution typically evaluated factors including the cost of construction and the
projected value of the property. In conducting their evaluations, lenders relied on
representations made by potential borrowers concerning cost, value and income.
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COUNT 1
(Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud)
The Grand Jury Further Charges That:
1. The allegations contained in the Introduction of this Superseding Indictment
are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
THE CONSPIRACY
2. Beginning in or before 2007, the exact date being unknown to the Grand Jury,
and continuing to in or about January 2019, in the Western District of New York, and
elsewhere, the defendants, ROBERT MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD
MORGAN, and MICHAEL TREMITI did knowingly, willfully and unlawfully combine,
conspire and agree together and with Kevin Morgan, Patrick Ogiony, Scott Cresswell, and
others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to:
a. devise a scheme and artifice to defraud financial institutions and government
sponsored enterprises and to obtain money and property from financial institutions and
government sponsored enterprises by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations and promises, and for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice, to
transmit, and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communication in interstate and
foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures and sounds, and the scheme and artifice
affected financial institutions, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343; and
b. knowingly execute a scheme and artifice to defraud financial institutions and
to obtain moneys, funds, credits, assets, securities, and other property owned by, and under
the custody and control of, financial institutions by means of materially false and fraudulent
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pretenses, representations, and promises, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,
Section 1344.
OBJECTS OF THE CONSPIRACY
3. It was an object of the conspiracy to induce financial institutions to issue
mortgage loans based on false pretenses, representations and promises, which loans the
institutions would not have issued, or would have issued with different terms.
4. It was a further object of the conspiracy to provide the financial institutions
servicing the mortgage loans with false information to conceal the misrepresentations that
had induced the lenders to issue the loans, and to conceal the actual financial statuses of the
properties so the lenders would continue to provide additional loans.
5. It was a further object of the conspiracy to carry out and to execute the above-
listed objects for the personal gain, benefit, profit, advantage, and accommodation of
defendants ROBERT MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD MORGAN, and
MICHAEL TREMITI.
MEANS BY WHICH THE OBJECTS OF THE

CONSPIRACY WERE ACCOMPLISHED:
6. The objects of the conspiracy were accomplished through the following
means, among others:
a. Morgan Management provided property management, accounting and
financial reporting services for the properties owned by limited liability companies
controlled by defendant ROBERT MORGAN.
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b. Defendants ROBERT MORGAN and MICHAEL TREMITI, and Kevin
Morgan, as well as others known and unknown to the grand jury, conspired to manipulate
income and expenses for properties to meet debt service coverage ratios (“DSCRs”) required
by lending institutions. The manipulation included, among other things, removing expenses
from information reported to lenders.
c. Defendants ROBERT MORGAN, MICHAEL TREMITI, and TODD
MORGAN, and Kevin Morgan, as well as others known and unknown to the grand jury,
conspired to present lending institutions with false and fraudulent inflated construction
contracts and invoices that falsely reported to lending institutions that the contractors
constructing properties were being paid more than the contractors were actually being paid.
d. Defendants FRANK GIACOBBE, ROBERT MORGAN, MICHAEL
TREMITI and TODD MORGAN, and Kevin Morgan and Patrick Ogiony, as well as other
co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, provided false information to
financial institutions and government sponsored enterprises that overstated net incomes of
properties and thereby induced financial institutions to: (1) issue loans (a) for greater values
than financial institutions would have authorized had they been provided with truthful
information; and (b) that the financial institutions would not have issued at the time of
issuance had they been provided with truthful information; and (2) forgo contractual rights
that would have inured to the financial institutions had the defendants and Morgan
Management presented accurate financial information to the financial institutions.
e. Defendants FRANK GIACOBBE, ROBERT MORGAN and TODD
MORGAN, and Kevin Morgan and Patrick Ogiony, as well as other co-conspirators,
known and unknown to the Grand Jury, employed various mechanisms to mislead
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inspectors, appraisers, financial institutions and government sponsored enterprises with
respect to the occupancy of properties.
f. Defendants FRANK GIACOBBE, ROBERT MORGAN, TODD
MORGAN, and MICHAEL TREMITI, and other co-conspirators, known and unknown to
the Grand Jury, falsely inflated the amounts owed on properties, by among other things, (1)
providing false documentation of obligations purportedly associated with the properties, (2)
misrepresenting the actual purchase prices of properties by providing false contracts and
contract prices, and (3), as set forth above, presenting false construction contracts and
invoices.
ACTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE CONSPIRACY
7. In furtherance of the conspiracy, the following acts, among others, were
committed in the Western District of New York and elsewhere:
Morgan Ellicott
a. In or about March 2011, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE and defendant
ROBERT MORGAN and others known to the Grand Jury caused a fictitious contract to be
presented to Evans Bank, stating that Morgan Ellicott Apartments, LLC had contracted to
purchase Morgan Ellicott for $5 million when, in truth and in fact, the purchase price was
$3.1 million. Based in part on that misrepresentation, Evans Bank thereafter issued a $4.5
million loan for the purchase of Morgan Ellicott.
b. In or about March 2013, in connection with efforts to refinance Morgan
Ellicott, defendants FRANK GIACOBBE and ROBERT MORGAN, and others known to
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the Grand Jury presented to UBS documents identifying a false and nonexistent $3.5 million
loan purportedly owed on Morgan Ellicott. Based in part on this misrepresentation, UBS
issued an $8.5 million loan on April 30, 2013.
c. Defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received a “broker fee payment” of $85,000
from the proceeds of the loan issued by UBS on or about April 30, 2013. On or about May
3, 2013, defendant ROBERT MORGAN also paid defendant FRANK GIACOBBE
$85,000. On or about May 7, 2013, a co-conspirator known to the grand jury paid defendant
FRANK GIACOBBE $50,000.
Rugby Square
d. On or about February 22, 2012, Rugby Square, LLC acquired Rugby Square
with a $5.56 million loan from M&T Bank, which was based on an appraised value of $7.52
million. Between or about September 18, 2012, and October 11, 2012, defendant FRANK
GIACOBBE emailed false and inflated income documents to Colliers and Berkadia in
connection with efforts by Rugby Square, LLC to refinance Rugby Square.
e. Thereafter, on or about October 25, 2012, Colliers issued an appraisal based
in part on false information provided by defendant FRANK GIACOBBE, valuing the
property at $13 million.
f. On or about December 20, 2012, Berkadia issued a $9 million loan to
refinance the property which loan was subsequently purchased by Freddie Mac.
g. On or about December 20, 2012, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received a
payment of $90,000 from the proceeds of the loan. On or about December 21, 2012, a co-
conspirator known to the Grand Jury paid defendant FRANK GIACOBBE $50,000. On or
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about January 2, 2013, defendant ROBERT MORGAN paid defendant FRANK
GIACOBBE $90,000.
Avon Commons
h. In December 2013, defendant ROBERT MORGAN signed a purchase
contract on behalf of Morgan Acquisitions LLC to purchase the Avon Commons apartment
complex for $5.9 million with an approximate $4.7 million loan from Evans Bank and an
approximate $1.2 million loan from a fund financed by investors recruited by defendant
ROBERT MORGAN. Approximately one year later, in or about December 2014,
defendant ROBERT MORGAN obtained a $6.3 million loan from Arbor to pay off the
December 2013 loans.
i. On October 6, 2014, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE presented an Arbor
employee with a payoff letter for the Morgan-related loan. After learning that Arbor would
not pay off a loan from defendant ROBERT MORGAN’S investor fund, defendant
FRANK GIACOBBE emailed defendant ROBERT MORGAN on October 7, 2014,
attaching a false and fraudulent payoff letter for the Morgan-affiliated loan disguising that
the loan was from a Morgan-affiliated fund. Defendant FRANK GIACOBBE then sent the
fraudulent payoff letter to the Arbor employee.
j. On or about October 26, 2014, CBRE issued an appraisal valuing the property
at $8.1 million based in part on a misrepresentation by defendant FRANK GIACOBBE that
Morgan Acquisitions had purchased the property for $8 million in December 2013 when, in
fact, the purchase price was $5.9 million.
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k. On or about December 9, 2014, Arbor issued a $6.3 million loan, the amount
of which was based in part on the misrepresentations that: (1) Morgan was indebted to
United Income Partner’s Fund 11% Notes Fund LLC in the amount of $1,371,316.67, and
would use the proceeds of the loan to pay off that debt; and (2) Morgan Acquisitions had
purchased the property in December 2013 for $8 million. Freddie Mac subsequently
purchased the loan from Arbor.
l. On or about December 9, 2014, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received
$63,000 in broker’s fees from the proceeds of the $6.3 million loan.
Rochester Village
m. Between on or about October 27, 2014, and on or about April 6, 2015,
defendants, FRANK GIACOBBE, ROBERT MORGAN, TODD MORGAN, and Kevin
Morgan and Patrick Ogiony, in connection with efforts to obtain financing for Rochester
Village, caused misrepresentations regarding storage income, rent rolls, property brochures
and occupancy at the property.
n. Between on or about January 14, 2015, and January 19, 2015, defendants
FRANK GIACOBBE and TODD MORGAN, in connection with an inspection related to
the effort to obtain financing for Rochester Village, staged the interior of an unoccupied unit
to make it appear occupied, and as to other unoccupied units, turned radios on in the units
and placed mats and shoes outside apartment doors to mislead inspectors into believing that
the units were occupied.
o. On or about May 5, 2015, Colliers issued an appraisal, based in part on false
and fraudulent information provided by the defendants, valuing the property at $64 million.
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p. On or about May 12, 2015, Berkadia issued a $45.79 million loan that was
subsequently purchased by Freddie Mac.
q. On or about May 12, 2015, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received a
payment of $460,000 from the proceeds of the $45.79 million loan.
r. Between in or about May 2015 and in or about the spring of 2017, defendant
FRANK GIACOBBE and Kevin Morgan caused fraudulent rent rolls and financial
statements to be submitted during quarterly loan servicing reports.
s. On June 19, 2017, defendant ROBERT MORGAN sent an email to his real
estate attorney requesting him to create a new master lease that more than doubled the
monthly payment for a master lease Morgan Management had signed on the property.
t. On June 20, 2018, defendant ROBERT MORGAN instructed the attorney to
backdate the master lease to January 1, 2017.
Southpointe
u. Between on or about April 10, 2015, and March 29, 2016, defendants,
FRANK GIACOBBE and TODD MORGAN, and Kevin Morgan and Patrick Ogiony, in
connection with efforts to obtain financing from Arbor for Southpointe, inflated the number
of storage units and parking spaces available, inflated storage and other income, and
falsified rent rolls.
v. On or about April 16, 2015, defendant TODD MORGAN sent defendant
FRANK GIACOBBE and Kevin Morgan an email indicating that the property had a
$35.258 million construction loan and a second loan for $5.3 million. On the same date,
defendant FRANK GIACOBBE replied that he needed to show “payoffs,” – in other
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words, debts to be paid off – of $49 million on the property, and asked where to add
additional debt. Also on the same date, Kevin Morgan forwarded defendant FRANK
GIACOBBE’s inquiry to defendant ROBERT MORGAN, and defendant ROBERT
MORGAN instructed Kevin Morgan to allocate additional debt to a Morgan-related
investor fund, which debt did not exist. Defendant FRANK GIACOBBE caused the
fraudulent debt to be reported to Arbor.
w. On or about May 9, 2016, CBRE issued an appraisal based in part on false
information provided by the defendants, valuing the property at $60.5 million.
x. On or about June 27, 2016, Arbor issued a $45 million loan which loan was
y. On or about June 27, 2016, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received a
payment of $337,500 from the proceeds of the $45 million loan.
z. In or about May 2017, defendants FRANK GIACOBBE and TODD
MORGAN caused the creation of a false and fictitious rent roll and T12 statement in
connection with an inspection to be conducted by Arbor related to the inclusion of the $45
million Southpointe loan in a mortgage-backed security.
aa. In the spring of 2017, after becoming aware of an investigation into Morgan
Management properties, defendant ROBERT MORGAN informed Kevin Morgan and
others that he planned to create fictitious corporate leases for blocks of apartments in order
to mask lower actual occupancy at Southpointe and other properties. He would then deposit
or arrange for deposits of money into the apartments’ accounts. Defendant ROBERT
MORGAN then instructed Scott Cresswell to ask two contractors to sign fictitious leases for
a number of apartments at the property and to make rent payments for those apartments as
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a favor to defendant ROBERT MORGAN. Defendant ROBERT MORGAN would
arrange for the contractors to be reimbursed for the rent payments.
bb. On June 19, 2017, Scott Cresswell instructed a Morgan Management
employee to lease nine vacant units each to Contractor 1 and Contractor 2, and to backdate
the leases to April 1, 2017.
cc. From June through August 2017, Contractor 2 made total rent payments of
approximately $274,101.23 for which it was reimbursed by Morgan Management.
dd. From June 2017 through September 2017, Contractor 1 made total rent
payments of at least approximately $259,199.90, for which it was reimbursed by Morgan
Management. In December 2017, Contractor 1 made a payment of $86,281.89, for which it
was reimbursed in the amount of $70,290.
ee. In September 2017, Wells Fargo, the master servicer for a securitized package
of loans in which the $45 million Southpointe loan was included, received financial
information for the property through the second quarter of 2017, which included a rent roll
as of June 30, 2017. That rent roll listed the eighteen fictitious corporate leases for
apartments purportedly occupied by employees of Contractor 1 and Contractor 2. The total
purported rent for the eighteen apartments was $59,195, which accounted for 18.9 percent
of the total reported rental income, $313,276.57. The eighteen fictitious leases also raised the
occupancy of the building from 220 of 250 units (88.8 percent) to 238 out of 250 units (95.2
percent).
Eden Square
ff. Between on or about October 24, 2016, and December 31, 2016, the
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defendant FRANK GIACOBBE, Patrick Ogiony, and Kevin Morgan, in an effort to obtain
financing from Berkadia for Eden Square, falsified rent rolls and T12s, altered lease
contracts to misstate rents and fees, and provided them to Berkadia.
gg. On or about October 24, 2016, in order to falsify radon testing required by
Berkadia, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE instructed Kevin Morgan to place a radon
detection canister in a vacant unit on the top floor of the building with the window cracked
during radon testing, despite instructions from the radon testing company to place the
canisters only in ground floor units.
hh. Between on or about November 15, 2016, and on or about November 16,
2016, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury
provided false documents to Freddie Mac and Berkadia.
ii. On or about November 18, 2016, CBRE issued an appraisal, based in part on
false information provided by the defendants, including that the property was 95.8 percent
occupied. The appraisal valued the property at $54 million.
jj. On December 21, 2016, Berkadia issued a $42 million loan which loan was
kk. On or about December 21, 2016, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE received a
payment of $210,000 from the proceeds of the $42 million loan.
ll. On or about December 31, 2016, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE caused
Freddie Mac to be provided with a false and inflated rent roll for Eden Square.
mm. In or about early March 2017, an employee of Eden Square, who was
unaware of the scheme to defraud, provided an inspector conducting a pre-securitization
inspection on behalf of Wells Fargo, the master servicer for a securitized package of loans in
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which Eden Square was to be included, with an accurate rent roll showing the property less
than seventy percent occupied. On or about March 15, 2017, Kevin Morgan sent an email
to Berkadia, copying defendant ROBERT MORGAN, attempting to explain diminished
occupancy rates between the December 2016 loan closing and March 2017.
Villas of Victor
nn. On or about January 26, 2010, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE caused an
email to be sent to defendant ROBERT MORGAN attaching a false and inflated T12
statement that was subsequently provided to Arbor in connection with efforts to obtain a
refinance loan for the Villas of Victor.
oo. On or about February 19, 2010, defendant ROBERT MORGAN emailed
Kevin Morgan to confirm that rent prices had been removed from the internet listing for the
property. On the same date, Kevin Morgan emailed defendant ROBERT MORGAN, and
defendant FRANK GIACOBBE, confirming “ALL RENTS ARE DOWN.”
pp. Prior to closing of a loan for the property, defendants ROBERT MORGAN
and FRANK GIACOBBE conspired with Kevin Morgan and others known and unknown
to the grand jury to provide Arbor with false and inflated rent rolls and income statements.
qq. On or about May 13, 2010, Arbor issued two loans in a total amount of
$11,390,072.68. The first mortgage, in the amount of $9,750,000 was subsequently
purchased by Fannie Mae. The second mortgage, in the amount of $1,640,072.68 remained
with Arbor. After the loans closed, the conspirators continued to produce false and inflated
rent rolls and income statements during servicing of the loans, through 2016 and into 2017.
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Park Place of South Park
rr. On or about August 16, 2011, defendant ROBERT MORGAN signed a
contract to purchase Park Place of South Park for $11,500,000. Between August 16, 2011,
and September 15, 2011, defendant ROBERT MORGAN and defendant FRANK
GIACOBBE created a second contract, representing a purchase price of $15,375,000.
ss. On or about October 25, 2012, Berkadia issued a $13,800,000 loan, in reliance
on the inflated purchase price of $15,375,000. The loan issued by Berkadia was
Ellison Heights
tt. Between June 2016 and January 2019, defendants ROBERT MORGAN and
TODD MORGAN caused the issuance and payment of a construction loan from ESL
based on a false and inflated construction contract price.
uu. Based in part on the inflated construction price, ESL issued a loan on
September 30, 2016, in the amount of $32,000,000.
vv. On or about July 17, 2017, defendant TODD MORGAN sent an email to
defendant ROBERT MORGAN and Kevin Morgan attaching a spreadsheet reflecting an
inflated contract price of $34,029,429 but an “actual amount to be paid” of $29,779,430. In
the email defendant TODD MORGAN reported to defendant ROBERT MORGAN that,
upon completion of the Ellison Heights project, there would be an excess of $1,711,312.14
in loan funds for the property.
ww. On March 27, 2018, a Contractor 1 employee sent an email to defendant
ROBERT MORGAN, defendant TODD MORGAN and Kevin Morgan attaching a
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spreadsheet reflecting an inflated contract price of $34,029,429 but an “actual amount to be
paid” of $30,482,785.
xx. Through approximately December 2018, the conspirators presented ESL with
fraudulent documents inflating the actual amounts they had paid Contractor 1, to enable
conspirators to draw out the entire amount of the loan. On or about January 4, 2019,
Contractor 1 signed an Owner Contract Change Order stating that its final contract sum was
$30,482,785. That document was never disclosed to ESL.
Union Square
yy. On or about July 28, 2017, an employee of Contractor 3 sent an email to
defendant TODD MORGAN attaching a construction contract in the amount of
$17,984,000 to build Union Square. On the same date, defendant TODD MORGAN
responded inquiring whether the contract was for Morgan Management’s internal purposes
or for the lender for the project. The Contractor 3 employee responded that the contract was
for Morgan Management’s internal use and that defendant TODD MORGAN needed to
tell Contractor 3 what figure to use for the contract be provided to the bank. Defendant
TODD MORGAN replied that the figure for the bank was $19,484,000. The Contractor 3
employee responded with an email attaching two contracts, one in the amount of
$17,984,000 and one in the amount of $19,484,000.
zz. On or about August 15, 2017, Capstone Construction Services, LLC prepared
a preconstruction project analysis for Canandaigua National Bank based on the inflated
contract amount of $19,484,000.
aaa. On or about September 4, 2017, Canandaigua National Bank issued a
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construction loan of $18,500,000 based in part on the false and inflated construction
contract amount of $19,484,000.
Links at Centerpointe
bbb. On or about July 17, 2014, Kevin Morgan presented Canandaigua National
Bank with fraudulent documents reflecting construction costs of $17,358,479 as part of
$21,826,253 total costs for the property. Based in part on false information, Canandaigua
National Bank issued a construction loan in the amount of $18,300,000 on or about January
21, 2015.
ccc. In or about November 2016, defendant FRANK GIACOBBE caused the
creation of a spreadsheet reflecting further inflated construction costs in a total amount of
$22,785,268, and caused this falsely inflated financial information to be presented in
connection with efforts to obtain permanent financing. Based in part on this false
information, CBRE issued an appraisal valuing the property at $28,350,000. Arbor issued
two loans – one for $21,140,000 and one for $2,926,616.88 – on January 12, 2017, based in
part on the CBRE appraisal. Freddie Mac later purchased the $21,140,000 loan.
Morgan Management Accounting and Financial Reporting
ddd. From approximately 2007 through early 2016, defendants ROBERT
MORGAN and MICHAEL TREMITI directed employees to move certain expenses off the
books of properties to present false financial pictures of the properties during quarterly
reporting to lending institutions and when Morgan Management sought to re-finance
properties.
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eee. On April 7, 2016, Kevin Morgan sent an email to Morgan Management
employees, including defendant MICHAEL TREMITI and copying defendant ROBERT
MORGAN, stating, “Guys – who is handling this? We should never send in financials that
show DCR below where we need to be based on the loan docs.” Later that same day, Kevin
Morgan sent a second email to Morgan Management employees, including defendant
MICHAEL TREMITI and copying defendants ROBERT MORGAN and TODD
MORGAN, stating, “DSCR should be reviewed prior to sending in and if we do not meet
the requirement we need to make adjustments so we do meet it.”
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.
COUNTS 2-82
(Wire Fraud)
1. The allegations contained in the Introduction and Count 1 of this Superseding
Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
2. Beginning in or before January 2010, the exact date being unknown to the
Grand Jury, and continuing to in or about June 2017, in the Western District of New York,
and elsewhere, the defendants, ROBERT MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD
MORGAN, AND MICHAEL TREMITI did devise, and intend to devise, a scheme and
artifice to defraud financial institutions and government sponsored enterprises and for
obtaining money and property from financial institutions and government sponsored
enterprises by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and
promises, and the scheme and artifice affected financial institutions.
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3. On or about the dates set forth below, in the Western District of New York,
and elsewhere, for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice, the defendants set forth
below, did transmit, and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communication in
interstate and foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures and sounds as set forth
below:
RUGBY SQUARE
COUNT DATE DEFENDANT(S) DESCRIPTION OF WIRE COMMUNICATION
Email to Rugby Square property manager

stating that a false and inflated rent roll was the
FRANK
2 09/04/2012
GIACOBBE “updated rent roll that we are moving forward
with (sic).”
Email to Colliers employees in Columbus,

Ohio attaching a false Rugby Square rent roll
FRANK
3 09/18/2012
GIACOBBE and a false Rugby Square T12 statement to
Colliers.
Email to Berkadia containing a certification by

a co-conspirator of a false Rugby Square rent
FRANK
4 10/11/2012
GIACOBBE roll.
Email to a co-conspirator’s employee asking

whether the co-conspirator had been providing
FRANK
5 12/05/2013
GIACOBBE the loan servicer with “regular” numbers or
“inflated” numbers for Rugby Square.
25
AVON COMMONS
Email from Kevin Morgan to defendant

ROBERT MORGAN forwarding an email
ROBERT from Patrick Ogiony requesting a $1,439,075
6 09/30/2014
MORGAN
payoff letter from Monroe Capital and asking
“Robert can you get this?”
Email from defendant ROBERT MORGAN to

ROBERT Kevin Morgan responding “Yes” to the email
7 09/30/2014
MORGAN
referenced at Count 6.
Email to Monroe Capital requesting a payoff

ROBERT
8 10/01/2014
MORGAN for Avon Commons.
Email from Monroe Capital indicating

ROBERT
9 10/01/2014
MORGAN unfamiliarity with an Avon Commons loan.
Email to Monroe Capital acknowledging there

ROBERT
10 10/01/2014
MORGAN was no Monroe Capital loan to be paid off.
Email to a co-conspirator, known to the Grand

Jury, with a payoff letter for Avon Commons
FRANK
11 10/06/2014
GIACOBBE for a fictitious debt to a Morgan Management-
related entity, Morgan 11% Notes Fund, LLC.
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After a co-conspirator, known to the Grand

Jury, replied to the email set forth in Count 11
stating that if the debt to a Morgan
Management-related entity was not recorded it
FRANK
12 10/06/2014
GIACOBBE would be “considered a cash out” and “we
would get f****d,” defendant GIACOBBE
responded with an email stating, “Ok. Let me
see what I can do.”
Email to the co-conspirator referenced in

FRANK Counts 11 and 12, stating, “Call me back as
13 10/07/2014
GIACOBBE
soon as possible.”
Email from defendant FRANK GIACOBBE

to defendant ROBERT MORGAN, attaching
FRANK
GIACOBBE a false and altered payoff letter for Avon
14 10/7/2014
Commons, replacing the name Morgan 11%
ROBERT
MORGAN Notes Fund, LLC with United Income
Partners Fund 11% Notes Fund, LLC.
Email to the co-conspirator referenced at

FRANK Counts 11 through 13, attaching the false and
15 10/07/2014
GIACOBBE
altered payoff letter referenced at Count 14.
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ROCHESTER VILLAGE
Email to Colliers attaching a false and inflated

FRANK Rochester Village operating budget, T12
16 10/27/2014
GIACOBBE
statement, and rent roll.
Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE

forwarding a true and accurate T12 income
FRANK statement that Kevin Morgan had received
17 10/30/2014
GIACOBBE
earlier that day from a Morgan Management
employee.
Email to Patrick Ogiony forwarding the true

FRANK and accurate T12 statement referenced in
18 10/30/2014
GIACOBBE
Count 17.
Email to Kevin Morgan attaching a fraudulent

and false and inflated “pro forma” document
listing several categories of income and
FRANK expenses for Rochester Village, including
19 10/28/2014
GIACOBBE
$72,900 in annual income for “storage space.”
The pro forma indicated that the $72,900 in
income came from 180 storage units.
Email forwarding an email from the Rochester

TODD Village property manager stating that the
20 10/29/2014
MORGAN
property had 45 storage units.
Email to defendant TODD MORGAN,

FRANK
GIACOBBE copying Kevin Morgan and Patrick Ogiony,
21 10/29/2014 responding to the email referenced at Count 20

TODD
MORGAN and asking “where did 72k come from on the
proforma (sic).”
FRANK Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE,

GIACOBBE
responding to the email referenced at Count
22 10/29/14
TODD 21, stating that the “72k” on the Rochester
MORGAN
Village pro forma came from “magic”.
FRANK Email to Kevin Morgan, copying defendants

GIACOBBE
TODD MORGAN and Patrick Ogiony,
23 10/29/2014
TODD stating, “Guys now is not the time for the
MORGAN
TRUTH!”
Email to a representative of an investor falsely

FRANK stating that Rochester Village had 180 storage
24 11/05/2014
GIACOBBE
units.
Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE

attaching conditional certificate of occupancy
FRANK
25 11/18/2014 GIACOBBE for Rochester Village construction building 19
restricting occupancy to only four apartment
units and some common areas.
Email to Kevin Morgan, copying Patrick

FRANK
26 11/18/2014
GIACOBBE Ogiony, stating “I see white out in our future.”
Email to Colliers falsely stating that Rochester

Village “became one hundred percent occupied
FRANK
27 11/20/2014
GIACOBBE the month of October” and attaching a false
and inflated T12 income statement.
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Email to a co-conspirator regarding Pizza

FRANK Joe’s, which was identified as occupied in a
28 11/24/2014
GIACOBBE
rent roll.
Email to Kevin Morgan, copying defendant

TODD MORGAN, stating that if the lender
FRANK found out that Rochester Village did not have
GIACOBBE
certificates of occupancy despite defendant
ROBERT FRANK GIACOBBE’s representations that
29 12/11/2014
MORGAN
the property was one hundred percent leased,
TODD the lender would not close and stating, “I’ve
MORGAN
tried everything so I suggest we jam it at the
end and hope they don’t notice.”
Email to the Rochester Village property

manager, copying defendants FRANK
FRANK
GIACOBBE GIACOBBE and TODD MORGAN, asking
30 01/19/2015
whether radios left on during the January 14,
TODD
MORGAN 2015, inspection were still audible and whether
mats were still in the hallways.
Email to Kevin Morgan, copying defendant

FRANK FRANK GIACOBBE, and identifying three
GIACOBBE,
31 01/19/2015 units in which radios had been left on after
TODD conspirators staged apartments to appear
MORGAN
occupied during an inspection.
Email to a Rochester Village property

manager, copying defendant TODD
TODD MORGAN, asking the property manager to
32 03/24/2015
MORGAN
arrange for cars to be parked in the Building
1000 parking garage.
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FRANK Email to Patrick Ogiony and defendant

GIACOBBE
KEVIN MORGAN, copying defendant
33 03/24/2015
TODD GIACOBBE, attaching a true rent roll for
MORGAN
Rochester Village.
Email to Kevin Morgan and defendant TODD

FRANK
GIACOBBE MORGAN, copying defendant GIACOBBE,
34 03/24/2015 requesting a copy of the Rochester Village

TODD
MORGAN marketing brochure without reference to “free
cable.”
Email to Patrick Ogiony and defendant

FRANK
GIACOBBE GIACOBBE, copying Kevin Morgan,
35 03/25/2015 attaching a fraudulent Rochester Village

TODD
MORGAN marketing brochure without reference to “free
cable.”
FRANK Email to Kevin Morgan and defendant TODD

GIACOBBE
MORGAN, copying defendant FRANK
36 03/30/2015
TODD GIACOBBE, attaching a false and inflated rent
MORGAN
roll.
Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE with

a list of apartments identified by the Rochester
FRANK Village property manager as vacant but
37 03/31/2015
GIACOBBE
identified as leased or occupied on the rent
roll.
Email to attorney instructing attorney to inflate

ROBERT master lease to $473,970 annually, and
38 06/19/2017
MORGAN
$39,497.50 monthly.
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Email to attorney instructing attorney to

ROBERT backdate master lease referenced at Count 38
39 06/20/2017
MORGAN
to January 1, 2017.
SOUTHPOINTE
After Patrick Ogiony sent Kevin Morgan an

email asking for removal of “‘Rent Includes:
Cable TV’” from Southpointe web page and
FRANK
40 04/10/2015
GIACOBBE removal of “Cable Included” from the
Southpointe website’s “features and amenities”
defendant GIACOBBE replied “BOOM”.
Email to defendant TODD MORGAN

regarding free cable advertised on
TODD Southpointe’s website, responding to the
41 04/10/2015
MORGAN
emails referenced at Count 40, stating, “Todd
wtf. This needs to be changed everywhere.”
Email to Kevin Morgan, copying defendants

FRANK
GIACOBBE TODD MORGAN and Patrick Ogiony,
42 04/10/2015 responding to the emails referenced at Counts

TODD
MORGAN 40 and 41, stating: “Guys we need to be on our
A Game to get max dollars.”
Email to defendant FRANK GIACCOBE and

Kevin Morgan, copying Patrick Ogiony,
FRANK
GIACOBBE responding to the emails referenced at Counts
43 04/11/2015 40 to 42, stating, “I’ve removed ‘cable

TODD
MORGAN included’ from the Morgan communities
website. I’ll try to remove it from as many [ ]
as I can.”
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Email to defendant FRANK GIACCOBE and

FRANK Kevin Morgan, copying Patrick Ogiony,
GIACOBBE
responding to the emails referenced at Counts
44 04/13/2015
TODD 40 to 43, stating: “Update: I’ve been told items
MORGAN
involving cable have been removed for
Southpointe on the websites.”
Email from defendant FRANK GIACOBBE

FRANK to Kevin Morgan and defendant TODD
GIACOBBE
MORGAN, copying Patrick Ogiony and
45 04/16/2015
TODD stating that he “need[ed] to show payoffs
MORGAN
totaling around 49million (sic)” and asking
where to claim the debt was owed.
Email from Kevin Morgan to defendant

ROBERT MORGAN asking defendant
ROBERT ROBERT MORGAN how he wanted to
46 04/16/2015
MORGAN
respond to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE’S
email referenced at Count 45.

Kevin Morgan instructing him to attribute $5.3
ROBERT
47 04/16/2015
MORGAN million to Monroe Capital and remaining
payoff to “morgan fund.”
Email to a co-conspirator, copying defendant

FRANK GIACOBBE, providing false and
FRANK
48 11/03/2015 GIACOBBE inflated information about the number of
parking spots and storage spaces at the
property.
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Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE,

FRANK Kevin Morgan and Patrick Ogiony forwarding
GIACOBBE
an email from the Southpointe property
49 03/29/2016
TODD manager attaching a document with rental
MORGAN
information for the property stating that fewer
than twenty storage units were occupied.
Email to Patrick Ogiony instructing Patrick

FRANK Ogiony to fill out a Southpointe rental
50 03/29/2016 GIACOBBE
information document “to match our
economics.”
Email to defendants FRANK GIACOBBE,

TODD MORGAN and Patrick Ogiony
FRANK
GIACOBBE attaching a true rent roll showing 84 percent
51 05/05/2017 occupancy, reporting that Arbor was

TODD
MORGAN scheduling an annual inspection, and stating
“we are at 84% so we need to discuss a game
plan.”
Email to Kevin Morgan and defendant TODD

FRANK
GIACOBBE MORGAN, copying defendant FRANK
52 05/15/2017 GIACOBBE, attaching a false and inflated

TODD
MORGAN T12 statement and a false and inflated rent roll
“for servicing” of the loan.
FRANK Email to Kevin Morgan and defendant

GIACOBBE
FRANK GIACOBBE, copying defendant
53 05/18/2017
TODD TODD MORGAN, attaching a false and
MORGAN
inflated rent roll.
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AMHERST GARDENS
Email to defendant FRANK GIACOBBE and

FRANK
54 07/21/2015 GIACOBBE to a co-conspirator with a false and inflated
rent roll for Amherst Gardens.
EDEN SQUARE
Email to Kevin Morgan with instructions to

place a radon detection canister in a vacant
unit on the top floor of the building “with the
FRANK
55 10/24/2016 GIACOBBE window slightly cracked like a half an inch”
despite instructions form the radon testing
company to place the canisters only in ground
floor units.
Email to defendants FRANK GIACOBBE and

ROBERT MORGAN, proposing how to
explain to Berkadia the number of vacancies
FRANK after an Eden Square employee gave an
GIACOBBE
56 03/15/2017 inspector on site an accurate rent roll showing
ROBERT the property less than 70 percent occupied
MORGAN
despite the loan having closed in December
2016 with false and inflated rent rolls reporting
greater than 95 percent occupancy.
Email to Berkadia attempting to explain the

ROBERT
57 03/15/2017
MORGAN current occupancy at Eden Square.
VILLAS OF VICTOR
Email from associate of defendant FRANK

ROBERT GIACOBBE to defendant ROBERT
MORGAN
58 01/26/2010 MORGAN, copying defendant FRANK
FRANK GIACOBBE, attaching false and inflated T12
GIACOBBE
statement.
Email to Kevin Morgan requesting

ROBERT confirmation that rent prices had been
59 02/19/2010
MORGAN
removed from the property’s website.
ROBERT Email to ROBERT MORGAN and FRANK

MORGAN
GIACOBBE confirming “ALL RENTS ARE
60 02/19/2010
FRANK DOWN.”
GIACOBBE
PARK PLACE OF SOUTH PARK
Email to attorney attaching inflated sales

ROBERT
61 08/22/2011
MORGAN contract.
Email from attorney instructing that date of

ROBERT inflated sales contract should be the same date
62 08/23/2011
MORGAN
as the true sales contract.
Email to attorney requesting copies of true

ROBERT
63 09/15/2011
MORGAN sales contract in Word version.
Email to associate of defendant FRANK

ROBERT
MORGAN GIACOBBE, copying defendant FRANK
64 09/15/2011
GIACOBBE, attaching Word version of true
FRANK
GIACOBBE sales contract.
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Email from associate of FRANK GIACOBBE

ROBERT
MORGAN attaching an inflated sales contract purportedly
65 09/15/2011
signed by the seller from the true contract to be
FRANK
GIACOBBE signed by a Morgan-affiliated middleman.
ELLISON HEIGHTS
Email to ESL attaching a false and inflated

TODD schedule of value including an inflated
66 09/20/2016
MORGAN
construction cost.
TODD Email to ESL attaching an inflated invoice.

67 06/26/2017
MORGAN
Email to defendant ROBERT MORGAN
TODD attaching spreadsheet reflecting inflated
MORGAN
68 07/17/2017 contract price and actual amount to be paid
ROBERT and indicating an excess of funds on Ellison
MORGAN
Heights.
Email to defendant TODD MORGAN

ROBERT
MORGAN responding to the email referenced at Count 68
69 07/17/2017
attaching the spreadsheet with actual and
TODD
MORGAN inflated contract figures.
ROBERT Email from Contractor 1 attaching spreadsheet

MORGAN
70 03/27/2018 reflecting actual and inflated contract figures
TODD for Ellison Heights and other projects.
MORGAN
UNION SQUARE
Email from Contractor 3 attaching contract for

TODD
71 07/28/2017
MORGAN $17,984,000.
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Email to Contractor 3 asking whether the

contract referenced at Count 71 was for
TODD
72 07/28/2017
MORGAN internal purposes or the contract to be
presented to the lender.
Email to TODD MORGAN stating that the

contract referenced at Count 71 was for
internal purposes and defendant TODD
TODD
73 07/28/2017
MORGAN MORGAN needed to tell Contractor 3 what
figure to use for the contract to be presented to
the lender.
Email to Contractor 3 requesting a contract to

TODD be presented to the lender in the amount of
74 07/28/2017
MORGAN
$19,484,000.
Email from Contractor 3 attaching two

contracts, one containing the true figure, and
TODD
75 07/28/2017
MORGAN one containing a figure to be presented to the
lender.
LINKS AT CENTERPOINTE
Email from Morgan Services employee

MICHAEL attaching two documents revealing separate
TREMITI
76 07/28/2016 contract prices for Links at Centerpointe, one
TODD of which was the actual contract price, and one
MORGAN
of which was presented to the lender.
Email from Morgan Services employee

attaching two invoices, one of which reflected
TODD
77 09/01/2016
MORGAN the actual contract amount and one of which
reflected the inflated amount.
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TODD
MORGAN Email forwarding the email referenced at
78 09/01/2016
Count 77.
MICHAEL
TREMITI
TODD
MORGAN Email attaching inflated construction
79 09/16/2016
documents.
FRANK
GIACOBBE
NON-PROPERTY SPECIFIC

defendant FRANK GIACOBBE instructing
defendant GIACOBBE not to have another co-
FRANK
GIACOBBE conspirator advertise defendant ROBERT
80 08/28/2013
MORGAN’S deals in papers because “we
ROBERT
MORGAN don’t want any other banks to see it. they
might of (sic) seen numbers before, so we don’t
need issues”.
Email to Morgan Management personnel,

copying defendants ROBERT MORGAN and
ROBERT
MORGAN TODD MORGAN, stating, “We should never
81 04/07/2016
send in financials that show DCR [DSCR]
TODD
MORGAN below where we need to be based on the loan
docs.”
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Email to Morgan Management personnel,

copying defendants ROBERT MORGAN and
TODD MORGAN, stating, “To reiterate,
ROBERT
MORGAN though, we should never put ourselves in this
82 04/07/2016
position. DSCR should be reviewed prior to
TODD
MORGAN sending in and if we do not meet the
requirement, we need to make adjustments so
we do meet it.”
COUNTS 83-96
(Bank Fraud)
1. The allegations contained in the Introduction and Counts 1 through 82 of this
Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
2. On or about the dates set forth below, in the Western District of New York
and elsewhere, the defendants set forth below did knowingly execute, and attempt to
execute, a scheme and artifice to defraud financial institutions and to obtain moneys, funds,
credits, assets, securities, and other property owned by, and under the custody and control
of, financial institutions by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations and promises, with respect to the loans set forth below by date, property,
borrower, loan amount, and financial institution:
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Loan Financial
Count Date Defendant(s) Property Borrower
Amount Institution
83 05/13/2010 FRANK Park Place of Park Place of $9,750,000 Arbor

GIACOBBE South Park South Park Commercial
Apartment Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT Homes, LLC
MORGAN
84 05/13/2010 FRANK Park Place of Park Place of $1,640,072.68 Arbor

GIACOBBE South Park South Park Commercial
Apartment Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT Homes, LLC
MORGAN
85 10/25/2012 FRANK Villas of The Villas of $13,800,000 Berkadia

GIACOBBE Victor Victor, LLC Commercial
Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
86 12/20/2012 FRANK Rugby Rugby Square, $9,000,000 Berkadia

GIACOBBE Square LLC Commercial
Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
87 04/30/2013 FRANK Morgan Morgan Ellicott $8,500,000 UBS Real

GIACOBBE Ellicott Apartments, LLC Estate
Securities, Inc.
ROBERT
MORGAN
88 12/9/2014 FRANK Avon Morgan Avon $6,300,000 Arbor

GIACOBBE Commons Apartments, LLC Commercial
Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
89 01/21/2015 ROBERT Links at Morgan $18,300,000 Canandaigua

MORGAN Centerpointe Canandaigua National Bank
Land, LLC
TODD
MORGAN
MICHAEL
TREMITI
41
Loan Financial
Amount Institution
90 05/12/2015 FRANK Rochester Park Place $45,791,000 Berkadia

GIACOBBE Village Pittsburgh, LLC Commercial
Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
TODD
MORGAN
91 09/30/2015 FRANK Amherst Chesed Properties $11,000,000 Arbor

GIACOBBE Gardens Buffalo, LLC Commercial
Funding, LLC
92 06/27/2016 FRANK Southpointe The Reserve at $45,000,000 Arbor

GIACOBBE Southpointe, Commercial
LLC Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
TODD
MORGAN
93 09/30/2016 ROBERT Ellison Ellison Heights $32,000,000 ESL

MORGAN Heights Apartments, LLC
TODD
MORGAN
94 12/21/2016 FRANK Eden Square Cranberry Vista $42,000,000 Berkadia

GIACOBBE Apartments, LLC Commercial
Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
TODD
MORGAN
95 01/12/2017 FRANK Links at Morgan $21,140,000 Arbor

GIACOBBE Centerpointe Canandaigua Commercial
Land, LLC Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
TODD
MORGAN
42
Loan Financial
Amount Institution
96 01/12/2017 FRANK Links at Morgan $2,926,616.88 Arbor

GIACOBBE Centerpointe Canandaigua Commercial
Land, LLC Mortgage, LLC
ROBERT
MORGAN
TODD
MORGAN
97 09/04/2017 ROBERT Union 59 Union Square $18,500,000 Canandaigua

MORGAN Square National Bank
TODD
MORGAN
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1344 and 2.
COUNT 98
(Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud)
Superseding Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth
herein.
THE CONSPIRACY
2. Beginning in or before March 2017, the exact date being unknown to the
Grand Jury, and continuing to in or about November 2018, in the Western District of New
York, and elsewhere, the defendants, ROBERT MORGAN, and TODD MORGAN did
knowingly, willfully and unlawfully combine, conspire and agree together and with Kevin
Morgan and Scott Creswell and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to devise a
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scheme and artifice to defraud insurance companies and for obtaining money and property
from insurance companies by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations and promises, and for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice, to
transmit, and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communication in interstate and
foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures and sounds, and the scheme and artifice
affected financial institutions, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
OBJECTS OF THE CONSPIRACY
3. It was an object of the conspiracy to induce the insurance companies to issue
payments on insurance claims for multi-family residential properties in the Robert Morgan
portfolio in excess of the actual amount to repair those properties after damage to the
properties.
4. It was a further object of the conspiracy to carry out and to execute the above-
listed objects for the personal gain, benefit, profit, advantage, and accommodation of
defendant ROBERT MORGAN.
MEANS BY WHICH THE OBJECTS OF THE

CONSPIRACY WERE ACCOMPLISHED:
5. The objects of the conspiracy were accomplished by submitting to insurance
companies false and inflated contracts for property repairs and false and inflated invoices
representing purported payments to construction firms in excess of actual payments to those
firms.
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ACTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE CONSPIRACY
6. In furtherance of the conspiracy, the following acts, among others, were
committed in the Western District of New York and elsewhere:
Lakes at 8201/Summerwood Apartments
7. On or about March 8, 2017, Contractor 4 sent Kevin Morgan a false and
inflated contract for repairs at the property in the amount of $3,236,519.
8. On or about March 20, 2017, Contractor 4 sent Kevin Morgan the actual
contract for repairs at the property in the amount of $2,500,000.
9. During the course of the conspiracy, on or about July 11, 2017, a Prudential
employee emailed Scott Cresswell, copying defendant TODD MORGAN and Kevin
Morgan stating that the Master Servicer for the Summerwood loan was requesting cancelled
checks for payments to the contractor. In lieu of cancelled checks, Prudential later accepted
a form, signed by defendant ROBERT MORGAN, falsely certifying $970,955.70 in
payments to Contractor 4 for the property.
10. On or about April 20, 2018, Scott Cresswell emailed a Prudential employee
attaching an inflated final invoice reflecting total payments of $3,236,519.
11. Between March 2017 and November 2018, insurers made payments based on
false and fraudulent invoices and contracts that defendant ROBERT MORGAN caused to
be submitted by Scott Cresswell and others known and unknown to the grand jury.
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Eden Square
12. On May 2, 2017, a Contractor 1 employee sent an email to defendant TODD
MORGAN and Kevin Morgan asking what amount should be entered on the contract to be
presented to York Risk, the adjuster hired by the insurance companies to manage the
claims, in connection with repairs Contractor 1 was to perform at Eden Square.
13. On May 3, 2017, defendant TODD MORGAN replied that the invoice
should be “right around the number $263,013.57.” On the same date, defendant TODD
MORGAN sent an additional email, adding, “If you could also date the invoice closer to
when you finished all of the work that would be great.” On May 4, 2017, Contractor 1 sent
defendant TODD MORGAN and Kevin Morgan one email reflecting an inflated invoice
for $263,013.57 and a second email with an actual amount of $174,999.
14. Between March 2017 and July 2017, insurers made payments based on the
false and fraudulent invoices and contracts provided by defendant TODD MORGAN and
others known and unknown to the grand jury.
Catastrophic Claim From March 2017 Storm
15. On or about March 8, 2017, a windstorm in the Rochester, New York
metropolitan area damaged thirty-four properties in the Morgan multi-family residential
portfolio. Morgan Facilities was contracted to do the work or to act as the general
contractor to repair or coordinate the repair of the damage on all of the properties.
Defendant ROBERT MORGAN and Scott Cresswell caused the presentation of inflated
contracts to York Risk, the adjuster hired by the insurance companies to manage the claims.
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16. Between June 2017 and January 2018, insurers made payments based on the
false and fraudulent invoices and contracts that defendants ROBERT MORGAN and
TODD MORGAN caused to be provided by Scott Cresswell and others known and
unknown to the grand jury.
COUNTS 99-113
(Wire Fraud)
Superseding Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth
herein.
2. Beginning in or before March 2017, the exact date being unknown to the
Grand Jury, and continuing to in or about November 2018, in the Western District of New
York, and elsewhere, the defendants, ROBERT MORGAN, and TODD MORGAN, did
devise, and intend to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud insurance companies and for
obtaining money and property from insurance companies by means of materially false and
fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, and the scheme and artifice affected
financial institutions.
3. On or about the dates set forth below, in the Western District of New York,
and elsewhere, for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice, the defendants set forth
below, did transmit, and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communication in
interstate and foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures and sounds as set forth
below:
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LAKES AT 8201/SUMMERWOOD APARTMENTS
Email from financial institution stating that the

master servicer on the loan for the property
TODD
99 07/11/2017
MORGAN requested copies of cancelled checks made to
the contractor for the insurance work.
Email to Prudential Asset Recovery attaching

ROBERT document falsely certifying $970,955.70 in
100 01/31/2018
MORGAN
payments to Contractor 4.
EDEN SQUARE
Email from Kevin Morgan to Scott Cresswell,

copying defendant TODD MORGAN,
TODD informing him that the repair work for Eden
101 03/27/2017
MORGAN
Square was being done “for much cheaper
than insurance is giving us.”
Email from Contractor 1 stating that although

the contract amount for the repair was “$181k”
TODD it appeared the final amount would be “174k”
102 04/26/2017
MORGAN
and asking if Morgan Management needed a
different invoice for insurance.
Email from Contractor 1 asking if there was a

TODD
103 05/02/2017
MORGAN number yet to use on an invoice for insurance.
Email from defendant TODD MORGAN to

TODD Contractor 1 asking for the insurance invoice
104 05/03/2017
MORGAN
to be “right around the number: $263,013.57.”
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Contractor 1 asking Contractor 1 to “date the
TODD
105 05/03/2017
MORGAN [inflated] invoice closer to when you finished
all of the work.”

TODD Contractor 1 asking if he could get the inflated
106 05/04/2017
MORGAN
invoice “today”.
Email from Contractor 1 responding to the

TODD email referenced at Count 106 and stating,
107 05/04/2017
MORGAN
“For sure. Send over in a bit.”
Email from Contractor 1 to defendant TODD

TODD MORGAN attaching the true and accurate
108 05/04/2017
MORGAN
invoice reflecting a final cost of $174,999.
Email from Contractor 1 attaching the false

TODD and inflated invoice requested by defendant
109 05/05/2017
MORGAN
TODD MORGAN.
Email from Kevin Morgan to Scott Cresswell

forwarding the email referenced at Count 108,
TODD
110 05/05/2017
MORGAN attaching the true and accurate invoice for the
repair work.
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CATASTROPHIC CLAIM MARCH 2017
Email from defendant ROBERT MORGAN

acknowledging email from Morgan Facilities
indicating the total cost to repair roofs at
ROBERT
111 06/07/2017
MORGAN Henrietta Highlands would be $618,840 and
requesting confirmation that it was “Morgan
pricing and bottom pricing.”
Email from Morgan Facilities to Scott

Cresswell and defendant TODD MORGAN
112 07/10/2017 TODD
attaching document showing a contract sum of
MORGAN
$615,762 for Henrietta Highlands.
Email from Morgan Management employee

TODD indicating a total of $622,602 of invoices for
113 09/15/2017
MORGAN
Henrietta Highlands.
COUNT 114
(Money Laundering Conspiracy)
1. The allegations of the Introduction and in all of the paragraphs of the
Superseding Indictment are incorporated herein by reference.
2. Beginning in or about 2007, the exact date being unknown, and continuing to
in or about June 2017, in the Western District of New York, and elsewhere, the defendants,
ROBERT MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD MORGAN, and MICHAEL
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TREMITI, together and with others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly
combined, conspired and agreed among themselves to commit offenses against the United
States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957, that is, knowingly to
engage and attempt to engage in monetary transactions, by, through or to a financial
institution, affecting interstate or foreign commerce, in criminally derived property of a
value greater than $10,000, such property having been derived from a specified unlawful
activity, that is, Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343; and
Bank Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h).
FIRST FORFEITURE ALLEGATION

(Wire Fraud and Conspiracy)
The Grand Jury Alleges That:
Upon conviction of the offenses alleged in Counts 1, 2 through 82, and 97 through
113 of this Superseding Indictment, or any one of them, the defendants, ROBERT
MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD MORGAN and MICHAEL TREMITI, shall
forfeit to the United States of America any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is
derived from proceeds traceable to the offense of conviction, including, but not limited to:
MONETARY AMOUNT
The sum of two hundred sixty-seven million, three hundred forty-six thousand, six
hundred eighty-nine dollars ($267,346,689) United States currency to be evidenced by a
monetary judgment issued by this Court in aforesaid amount. Said judgment amount will
accrue at the prevailing rate per annum and serve as a judgment and lien against defendant’s
property, wherever situated until fully satisfied.
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REAL PROPERTY
a. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property

located at 215 Dorchester Avenue, Syracuse, New York, known as the Rugby Square
Apartments, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Rugby Square LLC,
and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded in the Onondaga County Clerk’s
Office on March 1, 2012 in Book 5191 at Page 569;
b. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property

located at 221 and 291 William Street, Buffalo, New York, known as the Morgan Ellicott
Apartments, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Morgan Ellicott
Apartments LLC, situate in the County of Erie, and more particularly described in a certain
deed recorded in the Erie County Clerk’s Office on June 5, 2012 in Book 11224 of Deeds at
Page 1836;
c. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property

located at 86 East Amherst Street, Buffalo, New York, known as the Amherst Gardens
Apartments, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Chesed Properties
Buffalo LLC, situate in the County of Erie, and more particularly described in a certain
deed recorded in the Erie County Clerk’s Office on July 2, 2014 in Book 11266 of Deeds at
Page 886;
d. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

597 Collins Street, Avon, New York, known as Avon Commons, a multi-family
residential apartment complex, owned by Morgan Avon Apartments LLC, situate in the
County of Livingston, and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded in the
Livingston County Clerk’s Office on December 15, 2014 in Book 1273 of Deeds at Page
1788;
e. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

at 10100 Kettlecreek Drive, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, known as Rochester
Village Apartments at Park Place, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by
Park Place Pittsburgh, LLC, situate in the County of Butler, Pennsylvania and more
particularly described in a certain deed recorded in the Butler County Clerk’s Office as
instrument #201205110013496 in Plan Book Volume 329, Pages 13-16 (being a
resubdivision of Parcel PP M1-M2 in the Park Place Subdivision Plan #2 Plan for
recording, as recorded on August 26,2011, in the Recorder of Deeds Office of Butler
County, Pennsylvania, as instrument #201108260020358);
f. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

1000 Meadow Lane, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, known as The Reserve at Southpointe,
a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by The Reserve at Southpointe LLC,
and further described as:
The certain parcel of land being all of Lot #1 in the Reserve at Southpointe Plan No
1, Last recorded in Instrument No. 201237840 in the Washington County Recorder
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of Deeds Office: Said lands being situate in the township of Cecil, County of
Washington, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Together with the rights and
responsibilities contained in the Access Easement between The Reserve at
Southpointe LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, The reserve at Southpointe
II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and RCM PA Land LLC, a
Pennsylvania limited liability company, dated June 24, 2016 and recorded June 27,
2016 in the Washington County Recorder of Deeds Office as Instrument number
201615700.
g. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

9000 Old Station Road, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, known as Eden Square
Apartments, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Cranberry Vista
Apartments LLC, situate in the County of Butler, Pennsylvania, being known as Lot
Number 2 in the Davis Subdivision Plan as recorded in the Recorder’s Office of Butler
County, Pennsylvania on January 10, 2014 in Plan Book Volume 339, page number 43 as
Instrument # 201401100000776;
h. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

2000 Pebbleview Drive, Victor, New York, known as the Villas of Victor, a multi-family
residential apartment complex, owned by The Villas of Victor LLC, situate in the County
of Ontario, and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded in the Ontario
County Clerk’s Office on October 24, 2002 in Book 1085 of Deeds at Page 944;
i. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

1700 Patrick Place, South Park Township, Pennsylvania, known as Park Place of South
Park, a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Park Place of South Park
Apartment Homes LLC, and further described as:
A certain lot or piece of ground situate in the Township of South Park, County of
Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being known and designated as Lot
#6 in the Park Place Apartments Plan as recorded in the Department of Real Estate
of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in Plan Book Volume 95, Pages 154 to 156.
Also known as Phase I, Park Place, a condominium development, as recorded in
Plan Book Volume 115, pages 167 to 174, Phase II Park Place, a condominium
development as recorded in Plan Book Volume 115, pages 175 to 182, and Phase III
Park Place, a condominium development, as recorded in Plan Book Volume 115,
pages 183 to 189.
j. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

1200-A Penfield Road, Penfield, New York, known as Ellison Heights Apartments, a
multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Ellison Heights Apartments LLC,
situate in the County of Monroe, and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded
in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on December 24, 2013 in Book 11343 of Deeds at
Page 350;
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k. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

59 Union Square Boulevard, Chili, New York, known as Union Square Apartments, a
multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by 59 Union LLC, situate in the
County of Monroe, and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded in the
Monroe County Clerk’s Office on October 31, 2017 in Book 11940 of Deeds at Page 614;
and
l. The premises, buildings, appurtenances, improvements, and real property at

2227 Brickyard Road, Canandaigua, New York, the Links at Centerpointe Townhomes,
a multi-family residential apartment complex, owned by Morgan Canandaigua Land LLC,
situate in the County of Ontario, and more particularly described in a certain deed recorded
in the Ontario County Clerk’s Office on December 16, 2013 in Book 1308 of Deeds at page
906.
If any of the property described above, as a result of any act or omission of the
defendants:
a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;

b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party;
c. has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court;
d. has been substantially diminished in value; or
e. has been commingled with other property that cannot be divided without
difficulty,
the United States of America shall be entitled to forfeiture of substitute property up to the
value of the above referenced properties pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section
853(p), as incorporated by Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(b)(1) and Title 28,
United States Code, Section 2461(c).
All pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Sections 981(a)(1)(C), Title 21,
United States Code, Section 853(p), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c).
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SECOND FORFEITURE ALLEGATION

(Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud and Conspiracy)
The Grand Jury Further Alleges That:
Upon conviction of the offenses alleged in Counts 1 through 113 of this Indictment,
or any one of them, the defendant, ROBERT MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD
MORGAN and MICHAEL TREMITI, shall forfeit to the United States of America any
property constituting, or derived from proceeds obtained directly or indirectly, as a result of
such offense of conviction, including, but not limited to:
MONETARY AMOUNT
The sum of two hundred sixty-seven million three hundred forty-six thousand six
hundred eighty-nine dollars ($267,346,689) United States currency to be evidenced by a
REAL PROPERTY
All of the Real Properties listed in the First Forfeiture Allegation, above,
incorporated herein by reference.
If any of the property described above, as a result of any act or omission of the
defendants:

difficulty,
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value of the above referenced properties pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section
853(p), as incorporated by Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(b)(1).
All pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(2).
THIRD FORFEITURE ALLEGATION

(Money Laundering Conspiracy)
The Grand Jury Alleges That:
Upon conviction of the offense alleged in Count 114, the defendants, ROBERT
MORGAN, FRANK GIACOBBE, TODD MORGAN and MICHAEL TREMITI, shall
forfeit to the United States of America any property, real or personal, involved in such
offense, and any property traceable to such property. The property to be forfeited includes,
but is not limited to, the following:
MONETARY AMOUNT
The sum of two hundred sixty-seven million three hundred forty-six thousand six
hundred eighty-nine dollars ($267,346,689.00) United States currency to be evidenced by a
REAL PROPERTY
All of the Real Properties listed in the First Forfeiture Allegation, above,
incorporated herein by reference.
If any of the property described above, because of any act or omission of the
defendants:
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difficulty,
value of the above referenced properties. The United States of America shall be entitled to
forfeiture of substitute property pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p), as
incorporated by Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(b)(1).
All pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(1).
DATED: Buffalo, New York, May 21, 2019.
JAMES P. KENNEDY, JR.

United States Attorney
BY: S/JOHN D. FABIAN

Assistant United States Attorney
United States Attorney’s Office
Western District of New York
138 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14202
716-843-5819
john.fabian@usdoj.gov
A TRUE BILL:
S/FOREPERSON
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Case 1:18-cr-00108-EAW-HKS Document 42 Filed 05/21/19 Page 1 of 57

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

For the Western District of New York

NOVEMBER 2018 GRAND JURY

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT

ROBERT MORGAN Violations:

The Grand Jury Charges That:

1. At all times relevant to this Indictment:

a. Morgan Management, LLC (“Morgan Management”), based in Pittsford,

by limited liability companies associated with defendant ROBERT MORGAN. Grand

Atlas Property Management LLC (“Grand Atlas”) acquired Morgan Management in or

b. Aurora Capital Advisors, LLC, based in Buffalo, New York, was a

financing for multi-family properties such as apartment complexes.

c. Defendant ROBERT MORGAN was the managing member and chief

controlled and managed owned a substantial portfolio of real estate holdings.

d. Defendant FRANK GIACOBBE owned and operated Aurora Capital

and attempting to broker, real estate loans.

e. Defendant TODD MORGAN was a Project Manager at Morgan

Management until its acquisition by Grand Atlas.

f. Defendant MICHAEL TREMITI was the Director of Finance at Morgan

Finance through in or about the end of 2018.

g. Patrick Ogiony was employed by and worked for defendant GIACOBBE as

Managing Director at Aurora Capital Advisors.

h. Kevin Morgan was a Vice President at Morgan Management through in or

about May 2018.

i. Scott Cresswell was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Management

Executive Officer through in or about May 2019.

j. Morgan Services LLC ( “Morgan Services”), based in Farmington, New York

k. The Amherst Gardens Apartments (“Amherst Gardens”) was a multi-family

l. Chesed Properties Buffalo, LLC (“Chesed Properties”) was a limited liability

company formed to purchase Amherst Gardens.

m. The Avon Commons Apartments (“Avon Commons”) was a multi-family

n. Morgan Avon Apartments, LLC (“Morgan Avon”) was a limited liability

company formed to purchase Avon Commons.

o. The Eden Square Apartments (“Eden Square”) was a multi-family residential

p. Cranberry Vista Apartments, LLC was a limited liability company formed to

purchase Eden Square.

q. The Morgan Ellicott Apartments (“Morgan Ellicott”) was a multi-family

r. Morgan Ellicott Apartments, LLC was a limited liability company formed to

purchase Morgan Ellicott.

s. The Rochester Village Apartments at Park Place (“Rochester Village”) was a

multi-family residential apartment complex located at 10100 Kettlecreek Drive, Cranberry

formed to purchase Rochester Village.

u. The Rugby Square Apartments (“Rugby Square”) was a multi-family

v. Rugby Square, LLC was a limited liability company formed to purchase

w. The Reserve at Southpointe (“Southpointe”) was a multi-family residential

apartment complex located at 1000 Meadow Lane, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

x. The Reserve at Southpointe, LLC was a limited liability company formed to

y. The Villas of Victor was a multi-family residential apartment complex located

at 2000 Pebbleview Drive, Victor, New York.

the Villas of Victor.

located at 1700 Patrick Place, South Park Township, Pennsylvania.

company formed to purchase Park Place of South Park.

cc. Ellison Heights Apartments (“Ellison Heights”) was a multi-family residential

apartment complex located at 1200-A Penfield Road, Penfield, New York.

purchase Ellison Heights.

ee. Union Square Apartments (“Union Square”) was a multi-family residential