Patrick Britton-Harr, the former CEO of a Sarasota private jet membership firm convicted of defrauding investors and customers of $15 million, is asking a federal judge in Maryland to grant him a new trial.
In a motion filed by his attorney last week, Britton-Harr says the need for the retrial is “due to the misconduct that occurred at his trial between jurors and the deputy courtroom clerk.”
Britton-Harr, who founded and ran the Sarasota and Annapolis, Maryland, company AeroVanti, is facing 120 years in federal prison after being found guilty of six counts of wire fraud by a federal jury in Baltimore in June. He is also facing an October trial in Maryland for an unrelated alleged Medicare fraud scheme…