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| The view is fantastic -- until the feds show up. |
You've got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can't spend it all. You've already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera yacht. But where do you hang your (gold-plated) hat after a long day of swindling?
If you're Nevin Shapiro -- the University of Miami booster and South Beach player who pleaded guilty in September to a $880 million Ponzi -- you book a $6 million bay-front lair and stock it with flat-screen TVs, sports memorabilia and vintage games. Riptide recently got a full tour.
Read
New Times this week for a feature about Nevin Shapiro, the gambling, status-obsessed, violent Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi empire.
In 2005, Shapiro dropped $6 million for a 1934 manse at 5380 N. Bay Road -- then spent hundreds of thousands pimping out the interior.
Mirce "Miki" Curkoski, a realtor with One Sotheby's International Realty, took Riptide on a tour of the home, which he's now trying to sell for Joel Tabas, the trustee in charge of recovering whatever Shapiro assets are left. (Like what you see? It's still on the market for $5.9 million! Email
Curkoski here if you've got that kind of cash to burn.)
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| The front courtyard, perfect for shady afternoons of shady business. |
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| For $5.9 million, they'll throw in Shapiro's vintage pool table and Ms. Pac Man. |
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| Notice the two flat-screens embedded next to the ovens, enabling the all-important NFL-watching while baking. |
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| An autographed Hurricanes helmet accents the den. |
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| A huge projection-screen motors down in front of the bed. |
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