Reputed Detroit mafia associate Gino Accetola has pled no contest to theft charges in state court related to a credit card scam where he’s alleged to have stolen almost $150,000 from a local credit-card processing company he was using for his tanning salon chain, Miami Tan. He faces up to 20 years in prison but his plea, which is considered an admission of guilt in the legal system, will most likely shield him from a heavy sentence.
Accetola, 51, operates five Miami Tan outlets across the Metro Detroit area. The case stems from a request for $200,000 dollars in additional funds from the credit-card processing firm (Interlink Repayment Systems) that he said was to sell a new tanning product. The product had in fact been recalled by its manufacturers. According to his indictment, he only repaid $52,000 and used the remaining money to go on spending sprees and vacations with his girlfriend.
In an unrelated civil case from 2016, Accetola, a convicted felon, was found responsible for swindling almost 11 investors out of $4,000,000 in a construction-company linked Ponzi scheme. He’s been ordered to repay $12,000,000 to his victims, monies that have not been handed over according to the victims’ attorney. A chunk of the money pilfered, roughly $1,700,000, was gambled away at the MGM Grand Casino in downtown Detroit.
Throughout his perpetrating the Ponzi scheme, Accetola bragged of his mob ties. going as far as to blame his withholding the profits from the investments in bogus construction projects on his bosses in the mafia. Back in 2013, he pled guilty in state court to another fraud offense and received suspended 10-month jail stint. Per sources, Accetola is connected to the Tocco wing of Detroit’s Tocco-Zerilli crime family.
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