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<\/p>\nThe housing director of a South Florida non-profit is facing charges after authorities said he stole over $1.2 million from the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust to fund a lavish lifestyle that included designer clothes, artwork and multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n
Thomas Jardon, the director of housing for Citrus Health Network, is facing charges including organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, identity theft and engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said at a news conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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The charges against Thomas Jardon<\/p>\n
Citrus Health, founded in 1979 by Jardon’s father, Mario Jardon, is a non-profit community mental health center that serves tens of thousands of patients annually and works with the Homeless Trust to find housing for community members and provides them with furniture.<\/p>\n
The Homeless Trust refers clients to Citrus Health, which helps find housing and is reimbursed by the county, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
Fernandez Rundle said last year, Citrus Health employees began complaining that Thomas Jardon was derelict in his duties and not responding to emails.<\/p>\n
The company performed an audit, discovered the thefts and reported it to authorities, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to a warrant, a Citrus Health senior accountant discovered a large purchase of over $30,000 worth of Apple products using Citrus’ Amazon account, and after asking Thomas Jardon to provide the Apple products executives for the organization decided to fire him in December 2025.<\/p>\n
An investigation found Thomas Jardon had two separate schemes that defrauded the Homeless Trust out of over $1.2 million, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
In one scheme, he located properties then created bogus companies claiming to be the owner or rental agency for the property, authorities said.<\/p>\n
He hid his ownership, creating multiple shell companies within a shell company, then created fake leases and moved money through multiple accounts before Citrus Health sought reimbursement for the fake rentals from the Homeless Trust, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
The other scheme involved false furniture sales, in which Thomas Jardon set up a fake company, created invoices for furniture and authorized payments before Citrus Health sought reimbursement from the Homeless Trust, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The furniture scheme alone netted him just under $600,000, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
Investigators discovered Thomas Jardon had purchased two $19,000 Rolex watches, an 18K gold Cuban chain, 12 lithographs from an art dealer in Switzerland, designer clothes, plane tickets, hotels as well as four new vehicles including a Jeep, a BMW, and two Chevy Silverados, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
Mario Jardon and other leadership at Citrus Health had no knowledge of or involvement in the thefts, and Citrus Health has already reimbursed the county over $1.2 million to cover the entire loss from the scheme, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n
“This is a theft committed by a rogue employee,” she said.<\/p>\n
Thomas Jardon, 42, was booked into jail and was being held on a bond of just under $700,000, Fernandez Rundle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The housing director of a South Florida non-profit is facing charges after authorities said he stole over $1.2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-408546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408546","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=408546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}