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Frank L. Pavlico III, the Clarks Summit informant who helped topple mob boss William “Big Billy” D’Elia, died in an apparent suicide Wednesday, a day after he appeared in court in Wilkes-Barre for violating his bond in a pending South Carolina fraud case.
Federal authorities disclosed Pavlico’s death in a handwritten notation Wednesday on the bottom of his arrest warrant and in a subsequent court filing asking that the fraud charges be dismissed because the “defendant is deceased.”
According to the notation, federal probation officers in Pennsylvania reported Pavlico, 43, had hanged himself.
David C. Stephens, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the South Carolina case, said Pavlico's attorney informed him of the death Wednesday morning. Pavlico had died overnight, the attorney said, according to Stephens.
An F.B.I. agent in Pennsylvania confirmed the attorney's report with the local coroner's office, Stephens said. Stephens said his office was awaiting an official coroner's report and would have "no comment on the cause."
"Personally and on behalf of the United States Attorney's Office, I would express our deepest sympathies to Mr. Pavlico's family," Stephens said. "Mr. Pavlico was always polite, well mannered and well spoken when dealing with me and the court."
A federal magistrate had permitted Pavlico to remain in Pennsylvania while awaiting trial after a Greensville, S.C. bonding company posted $75,000 secured bond on his behalf last December.
Pavlico violated that bond in August by failing to advise an investment client of his pending criminal charges, prosecutors said.
Pavlico failed to appear at a violation hearing Tuesday in Greenville, triggering his arrest 680 miles north in Pennsylvania and a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Malachy E. Mannion at the Max Rosenn U.S. Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.
Mannion, according to court documents, released Pavlico with the understanding he would appear at a rescheduled violation hearing in Greenville on Wednesday.
Instead, according to court documents, Pavlico ended his life.
Pavlico hatched the fraud scheme at the heart of the pending trial while still on probation for his role in the marijuana money-laundering case that led to D’Elia’s arrest, prosecutors said.
Pavlico, who also served 10 months in prison, helped set up D’Elia in a fake money-laundering operation and secretly recorded their conversations, prosecutors said.
D’Elia, who could be released from a seven-year, three-month sentence as early as Feb. 2, plotted to have Pavlico killed after learning of his cooperation, prosecutors said.
A federal grand jury in South Carolina indicted Pavlico in the fraud scheme last November and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal investment regulator, filed a near-simultaneous civil action.
In the scheme, prosecutors said, Pavlico and Washington, D.C. attorney Brynee K. Baylor told investors their “risk-free” foreign bank instruments would return a 2,000 percent profit within 45 days.
The investments, the federal authorities said, were a fictitious front for Pavlico, who used the alias Frank Lorenzo, and Baylor to kept the money.
Pavlico and Baylor used some of the proceeds to purchase a Jaguar and a Range Rover, meals at expensive restaurants, items from upscale retailers such as Jimmy Choo and a trip to the Bahamas, the authorities said.
uppy: Frank L. Pavlico III, the Clarks Summit informant who helped topple mob boss William “Big Billy” D’Elia, died in an apparent suicide Wednesday, a day after he appeared in court in Wilkes-Barre for violating his bond in a pending South Carolina fraud case.
Federal authorities disclosed Pavlico’s death in a handwritten notation Wednesday on the bottom of his arrest warrant and in a subsequent court filing asking that the fraud charges be dismissed because the “defendant is deceased.”
According to the notation, federal probation officers in Pennsylvania reported Pavlico, 43, had hanged himself.
David C. Stephens, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the South Carolina case, said Pavlico's attorney informed him of the death Wednesday morning. Pavlico had died overnight, the attorney said, according to Stephens.
An F.B.I. agent in Pennsylvania confirmed the attorney's report with the local coroner's office, Stephens said. Stephens said his office was awaiting an official coroner's report and would have "no comment on the cause."
"Personally and on behalf of the United States Attorney's Office, I would express our deepest sympathies to Mr. Pavlico's family," Stephens said. "Mr. Pavlico was always polite, well mannered and well spoken when dealing with me and the court."
A federal magistrate had permitted Pavlico to remain in Pennsylvania while awaiting trial after a Greensville, S.C. bonding company posted $75,000 secured bond on his behalf last December.
Pavlico violated that bond in August by failing to advise an investment client of his pending criminal charges, prosecutors said.
Pavlico failed to appear at a violation hearing Tuesday in Greenville, triggering his arrest 680 miles north in Pennsylvania and a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Malachy E. Mannion at the Max Rosenn U.S. Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.
Mannion, according to court documents, released Pavlico with the understanding he would appear at a rescheduled violation hearing in Greenville on Wednesday.
Instead, according to court documents, Pavlico ended his life.
Pavlico hatched the fraud scheme at the heart of the pending trial while still on probation for his role in the marijuana money-laundering case that led to D’Elia’s arrest, prosecutors said.
Pavlico, who also served 10 months in prison, helped set up D’Elia in a fake money-laundering operation and secretly recorded their conversations, prosecutors said.
D’Elia, who could be released from a seven-year, three-month sentence as early as Feb. 2, plotted to have Pavlico killed after learning of his cooperation, prosecutors said.
A federal grand jury in South Carolina indicted Pavlico in the fraud scheme last November and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal investment regulator, filed a near-simultaneous civil action.
In the scheme, prosecutors said, Pavlico and Washington, D.C. attorney Brynee K. Baylor told investors their “risk-free” foreign bank instruments would return a 2,000 percent profit within 45 days.
The investments, the federal authorities said, were a fictitious front for Pavlico, who used the alias Frank Lorenzo, and Baylor to kept the money.
Pavlico and Baylor used some of the proceeds to purchase a Jaguar and a Range Rover, meals at expensive restaurants, items from upscale retailers such as Jimmy Choo and a trip to the Bahamas, the authorities said.
