Posted: July 2025
Author: Shawn Martin, MBA
Board Member | Compliance Professional | Protected Whistleblower
💰 Massive Fines Still Climbing – Detailed Breakdown
As of June 30, 2025, fines tied to improper construction, unlicensed contractors, and ongoing code violations at Omega Villas have surged to:
| Phase | 2025 Balance | 2026 Projection | 2027 Projection | Annualized Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 2 | $873,200 | $1,377,200 | $1,881,200 | ~$657,000+ |
| Phases 1, 3, 4 Combined | ~$266,700 | ~$375,825 | ~$457,575 | ~$81,000 |
📌 Phase 2 shoulders more than 75% of the entire community’s fines, despite documented violations across all phases since 2007.
Records from Sunbiz.org and HOA meeting minutes confirm this pattern ties back to Patty & Blaire (principal Board officers from 2006 to today) and Norma & Ken Akers (through 2016) — the same leadership blocks that guided decisions resulting in long-standing exposures.
🔍 Documented Unauthorized Scope – Provided to Legal Counsel
As submitted to Glantz Law and documented in Exhibits T & T2:
• Furring strips were installed against solid masonry/concrete walls, pushing windows out and triggering entirely new electrical, plumbing, and HVAC conflicts — despite no membership vote, no original contract language, and no engineering necessity.
• Original roof insulation was stripped without replacement, violating Florida Building Code and impacting long-term thermal & insurance compliance.
This led to massive project cost shifts that owners were never formally informed of or asked to approve.
⚖️ Hollander’s June 25 Legal Letter – Attempt to Justify Scope
On June 25, 2025, Association attorney Rhonda Hollander issued a letter framing the furring strips, plywood additions, and lack of owner votes as inherent to the original NOA system. Based on the broader record, this appears intended to reassure lenders, insurers, and federal housing oversight already reviewing this project — a narrative clearly designed to preempt deeper scrutiny by:
✅ Lenders (Chase, LoanDepot, Banco Popular)
✅ Insurers underwriting the collateral
✅ Federal housing oversight bodies already copied on formal submissions.
🏛️ DBPR Oversight Failure & Election Legitimacy Issues
On June 30, 2025, the DBPR formally confirmed there is no record of any cancellation notice for the March 2025 election — despite the Board claiming it was administratively canceled.
This directly undermines the legal standing of this Board to approve major contracts, initiate foreclosure threats, or sign off on project scope changes.
🚨 Expanded Oversight Involvement Noted in Case CIBCS1464865
As of July 2, 2025, this matter is also under formal internal review by J.P. Morgan Chase, documented by Case CIBCS1464865. Notably, Chase has circulated this investigation across a wide array of oversight and regulatory bodies, signaling both the scale and seriousness of the issues documented at Omega Villas.
📂 Entities Now Formally Notified or Included in Case Circulation:
• Florida DBPR General Counsel & Licensing Divisions
• DBPR Inspector General
• Florida Attorney General’s Civil Rights & Public Integrity Divisions
• Office of the Inspector General, Executive Office of the Governor (Florida)
• Florida State Attorney’s Office, 17th Judicial Circuit (Broward)
• Florida House & Senate Members including Marie Woodson, Tina Polsky, Barbara Sharief, and Jason Pizzo
• DOJ Civil Rights Division & Public Integrity Section
• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida
• Florida Bar ACAP (Attorney oversight)
• Florida AG Press Office & City of Plantation Officials
This direct circulation means that not only is the validity of Board governance and election processes under review, but also potential regulatory shielding by state and local agencies is now within the documented chain of oversight.
This matter is now actively documented across multiple financial institutions (Chase, Loan Depot), state regulatory and oversight agencies, legislative offices, and federal DOJ divisions — establishing an extensive multi-tier record of governance failures, election irregularities, and potential financial exposure.
📌 Copies of lender responses available for regulatory or legal oversight review upon request.
🏠 Foreclosure Governance Gaps Under FS 718
Even as this unfolds, the Board continues to pursue foreclosure processes without documented formal votes as required under Florida Statute 718.116 & 718.112, leaving these actions open to serious legal challenges.
🎥 June 26 Construction Meeting Video Highlights
Multiple new clips from the June 26, 2025 meeting now show:
✅ Board & contractors reviewing photos of the unauthorized furring strips, acknowledging their impact on forced window replacements.
✅ Engineers outlining how every unit’s electrical outlets, plumbing lines, cable boxes, A/C units, and meter panels must be disconnected, rerouted, or modified by additional trades before façades can be finished — an enormous scope shift never properly documented.
✅ Disputes over unfinished patio ceilings, showing the base project itself is still incomplete.
✅ Discussions of unauthorized backyard access, reinforcing why many owners have refused entry.
✅ The CAM (Diana) on video acknowledging the Chase case — but only after Shawn Martin raised it on record. (Separately, Diana did respond directly to DBPR’s 2025 election inquiry, not to Chase.)
✅ Patty leveraging the Plantation Police Department (COP PD) to suppress owner dissent, raising broader public safety concerns and highlighting misuse of municipal authority to protect Board interests.
🎥 All video evidence is now publicly archived at www.hoajusticenow.com for independent lender, insurance, state, federal, and media review.
🏦 Where Institutional Oversight Stands Now
• Chase: Active under Case #CIBCS1428745
• LoanDepot: Confirmed investigation underway
• Banco Popular: Offered an opportunity to pilot owner protections, independent engineering audits, and procurement controls to stabilize what is increasingly a collapsed HOA governance structure.
🚨 Owner Advisory
Given these factors — from multi-million dollar fines, to documented unauthorized scope, to formal oversight failures and live video of intimidation:
Owners are strongly urged not to pay for additional windows, doors, drywall, or interior work until all bank, insurer, and federal reviews conclude.
📎 Supporting Materials
• Hollander Letter & NOA Attachment (PDF)
• Glantz Law Letter & your documented legal submission (PDF)
• Exhibits T & T2 (scope deviations & contract gaps)
• Contractor emails through July 1 refusing further work approvals
• DBPR oversight correspondence on the March 2025 election
• Exhibit V – Citation History
• Exhibit AA3 – Foreclosure Pattern
• Exhibit L – DBPR & State Failures
🔥 Bottom Line
This is no longer a neighborhood power struggle — it’s a documented case file now distributed to Chase, LoanDepot, Banco Popular, DOJ risk divisions, state agencies, insurers, and the investigative press. This further solidifies the systemic dimension of these concerns, placing accountability at the highest levels of state and federal governance — as well as financial institutions tasked with protecting collateral and investor interests tied to Omega Villas.
It’s also permanently archived for future claims, forced loan modifications, or insurance clawbacks if this Board’s mismanagement is ultimately formalized through lender or regulatory action. While this new compliance case chain does not yet formally include press recipients, prior Watchdog Emails and website publications have provided direct notice to national media including CNN, NBC, The Guardian, and local investigative reporters, securing an additional layer of public accountability.
Copies of Chase and LoanDepot case communications are held on file and available for independent oversight agencies or press verification upon request.
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