The confidential records show that the trusts became a secret partner in the ownership structure of Lomena’s apartment complex, working with the landlord to invest $2 million in the complex in 2015. The investors revealed in the leaked documents include offshore trusts holding hundreds of millions of dollars for the Legion of Christ, a wealthy Roman Catholic order disgraced by an international pedophilia scandal. Tenants across the country have faced aggressive tactics - including evictions during the pandemic - from a growing number of massive corporate landlords that draw on pools of money from wealthy investors around the world.Ī trove of leaked documents reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 150 media partners provide an unprecedented view of global financial maneuvers that turn rent payments into big profits that are often hidden in accounts owned by shell companies controlled by anonymous investors. Within days, during the height of the pandemic, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office posted a large notice in bold red letters on his door ordering Lomena to vacate his home within 24 hours or be arrested for trespassing. The company pressed the court to evict him and, in early February, the judge ruled that Lomena hadn’t filed the right form to prevent his eviction. His landlord - a holding company formed by real estate firms in Miami and Iowa - wasn’t moved by his pleas it had investors to satisfy. “I do not have a place to go,” Lomena wrote, “nor the money to move into a new apartment.” Carlos Lomena outside the Florida apartment building from which he was evicted. In a letter to the Florida judge, he pointed to a recent extension of the nationwide moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus outbreak and asked for more time to pay his overdue rent. He’d emigrated from Venezuela after high school with a sense that the U.S. The 37-year-old Lomena hoped to get a fair shake in court.
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In January, Carlos Lomena, a truck driver in suburban Miami who lost his job during the coronavirus pandemic, begged a judge to stop his landlord from evicting him.
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