{"id":294678,"date":"2026-06-03T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:54:12","slug":"motion-could-speed-restitution-for-victims-in-alleged-orlando-ponzi-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294678\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion could speed restitution for victims in alleged Orlando Ponzi scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge grants motion that could speed restitution for victims in alleged Orlando Ponzi scheme<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768911270_880_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 12:59 PM EDT Jun 3, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA judge has granted a motion that could help expedite restitution to victims of an alleged Orlando-based Ponzi scheme.  Christopher Delgado was the head of Goliath Ventures, a company that investors thought they were buying into for cryptocurrency exposure. Federal investigators said the multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme was run from a downtown Orlando office tower.Delgado is charged with fraud, and the Justice Department has until Oct. 26 to file a formal indictment. This week, the judge in the bankruptcy case involving Goliath Ventures granted a motion to allow Delgado to &#8220;coordinate&#8221; a settlement in the criminal case that will also satisfy investors and creditors in the bankruptcy case, possibly to the tune of half a billion dollars once assets are liquidated.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A judge has granted a motion that could help expedite restitution to victims of an alleged Orlando-based Ponzi scheme.  <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Delgado was the head of Goliath Ventures, a company that investors thought they were buying into for cryptocurrency exposure. <\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators said the multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme was run from a downtown Orlando office tower.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado is charged with fraud, and the Justice Department has until Oct. 26 to file a formal indictment. <\/p>\n<p>This week, the judge in the bankruptcy case involving Goliath Ventures granted a motion to allow Delgado to &#8220;coordinate&#8221; a settlement in the criminal case that will also satisfy investors and creditors in the bankruptcy case, possibly to the tune of half a billion dollars once assets are liquidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge grants motion that could speed restitution for victims in alleged Orlando Ponzi scheme Updated: 12:59 PM EDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[124178,80200,4626,105213,124179,80203,124180,80201,30310,735,2785,11876,139,141,140,124176,124177,6411],"class_list":["post-294678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bankruptcy-case","tag-christopher-delgado","tag-company","tag-creditor","tag-downtown-orlando-office-tower","tag-federal-investigator","tag-formal-indictment","tag-goliath-ventures","tag-head","tag-investor","tag-judge","tag-motion","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-ponzi-scheme","tag-restitution","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294678","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=294678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}