How Fraud Probe for Florida's Guarantee Insurance Led to Payroll, Tax Convictions

The name Guarantee Insurance is not one that is likely to be recalled with fondness by many Floridians. Guarantee was headed by Steve Mariano, who also was majority owner of the now-bankrupt Patriot National, a tech and insurance group in south Florida. State regulators charged that Guarantee improperly transferred millions of dollars to Mariano and his…