But Nesta also said he never invested any money with Delgado, nor had any other financial ties to him.<\/p>\n
Federal authorities say Delgado\u2019s company, Goliath Ventures, defrauded<\/a> investors of at least $328 million and that Delgado lived the high life on other people\u2019s money, including the purchase of four residential properties each worth between $1.15 million and $8.5 million.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of my work in real estate, I represented Christopher Delgado to buy and sell homes through normal arms-length transactions,\u201d Nesta wrote on Facebook. \u201cLike any home purchase, those sales were completed through licensed lenders and required full lender approval of the home loans.\u201d<\/p>\n Delgado also owns a home in Apopka, where he is registered to vote. Federal authorities described Delgado as an Apopka resident when they announced his arrest.<\/p>\n Nesta declined an interview request made Monday by the Orlando Sentinel. His campaign did not immediately respond to an emailed list of questions.<\/p>\n An Aug. 1 Instagram post by Nesta\u2019s real estate business shows it was involved in the sale of one of the four homes prosecutors say Delgado bought with others\u2019 money, a $3.2 million, six-bedroom, six-bathroom home in Winter Park. Property records show Delgado bought the home one day before the post was made.<\/p>\n \u201cSOLD \u2013 Congratulations to our buyers, official new owners of this stunning estate,\u201d the post read. The names of the buyers were not mentioned.<\/p>\n Nesta also wrote on Facebook that Delgado had once donated to one of his prior campaigns, but did not specify which campaign nor the value of the donation. Delgado made a Facebook post in 2024 supporting Nesta\u2019s campaign for the Apopka city commission that year.<\/p>\n Nesta came in first place during Tuesday\u2019s election, winning about 42% of the vote. Orange County Commissioner Christine Moore received about 32% of the vote and will also advance to the runoff. Incumbent Mayor Bryan Nelson received about 27% of the vote and was eliminated.<\/p>\n Nelson confirmed Monday he had endorsed Moore as his successor.<\/p>\n Nesta, in his Facebook post, said he wanted to address questions circulating about his relationship with Delgado and that his opponents, whom he did not name, wanted to use the relationship against him.<\/p>\n Moore, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon, posted about Delgado on Facebook early Monday morning<\/a> but did not mention Nesta.<\/p>\n \u201cComplaints on Delgado go back to 2023,\u201d Moore wrote above a link to a Sentinel column on the accused fraudster. \u201cFor me they go back to 2022 while he was donating $1,000 checks to schools. It was highly suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n Delgado dipped his toe into local politics in 2022, when he poured more than $100,000 into a campaign aimed at unseating Moore from the Orange County Commission, campaign finance records show. She said he rarely attended campaign forums, and he came in third<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe got 5,000 votes,\u201d Moore wrote. \u201cMore importantly, I grieve for those who lost their life savings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top finisher in last week\u2019s Apopka mayoral election announced Monday he had some professional ties to Christopher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10514,112,2811,28,29,114,115,1335,139,141,140,99,109,2643,4567],"class_list":["post-194244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-apopka","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-election","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-windermere","tag-winter-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Exterior](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773707827_906_os-delgado-house0471.jpeg.jpg\")
Exterior of the Christopher Delgado’s $3.2 million home at 141 South Phelps Avenue in Winter Park, on Thursday, February 26, 2026. Nick Nesta’s real estate business appears to have been involved in its sale to Delgado. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda\/ Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n