The VO Group and its principals have been heavily covered by InsideTheGate.com and
especially by its blog, The GateHouse. Adam & Ashely Lacerda, who owned the VO Group, are set to stand trial July 8.
Originally 16 people were indicted; then there was a superseding indictment for 10 of them, adding more counts of fraud (44 counts total). Of the original 16, six of them have pleaded guilty. Three of those people were also named in the superseding indictment.
Seven of those in the superseding indictment are still awaiting trial on July 8 but I expect more of them to plead out before that time.
You should take note that shortly before being arrested in April 2012, the Lacerdas formed a new company named
VO Financial and let VO Group (aka Vacation Ownership Group) die. VO Financial is the successor company, doing just what the VO Group was doing before them. If you read their press releases, they're all a bunch of misunderstood angels just trying to do good things. Yeah, right.
With the understanding that I work for InsideTheGate.com, if you really want the lowdown on these people and companies you can find it in our blog at
http://insidethegate.com/gatehouse/ In the search box at the top right of the page simply type in "lacerda" (without the quotes) and you'll get a real eye full. And you can read
FBI Special Agent John J. Mesisca’s affidavit on his investigation at
http://insidethegate.com/gatehouse/Complaint-LacerdaFBI.pdf. (Get some popcorn and settle in, that affidavit is a humdinger.)
Those people are a real piece of work, IMO. I hope they all fall down and go boom. :annoyed: