{"id":409764,"date":"2026-09-24T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409764\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:36:07","slug":"man-accused-of-stealing-homeless-funds-faces-judge-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409764\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of stealing homeless funds faces judge &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A man accused of stealing homeless funds made a bond court appearance on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors say 42-year-old Thomas Jardon, while working for Citrus, approved invoices and check requests that were submitted by him of fake leases he would create. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under this scheme, investigators say he would create fake companies that were intended to provide housing for homeless Citrus clients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By doing this, he would seek reimbursement from Citrus and the money would flow into his account, according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, officials say Jardon stole over $200,000 from Citrus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was arrested and faces multiple felony charges, including racketeering and organized scheme to defraud.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In bond court, the judge found probable cause and issued a $695,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A man accused of stealing homeless funds made a bond court appearance on Thursday. Prosecutors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-409764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409764","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=409764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}