TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The FBI has assigned another non-profit to take over the special needs trusts of more than 2,000 disabled people from across the country.
The trusts had been managed at the St. Petersburg Center for Special Needs Trust Administration, where its founder is accused of stealing $100 million from his clients.
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The center is at the focus of a criminal federal investigation.
CPT Institute said it has the most elaborate banking and trust administration system in the industry, and that’s why the FBI selected them. Executive Director William Lindahl said the center’s victims have been in a vacuum, not realizing what was happening to their money, and if they had received statements, they were likely to have been falsified.
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Hundreds of families are still living in agony as they search for answers.
“I hope they take the person and people that have done this or started this process accountable 100%,” said Nicalea Gonzalez, Amora’s mom .
The alleged theft of $100 million from the Center for Special Needs Trust Administration has left disabled people and their families with little or nothing left to provide for their future care.