EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Paso businessman pleaded guilty Friday after clients alleged he took their money but did not do the work. <\/p>\n
In a court hearing, Ary Marivani, owner of FCS Wrought Iron, pled guilty to deceptive business practices as he was accused of defrauding six victims of between $30,000 $150,000 from January 2024 to September 2025.<\/p>\n
Marivani was ordered to pay over $100,000 to the victims and will face three years of probation because it is his first offense, according to the prosecutor. <\/p>\n
RELATED: El Paso businessman faces felony theft charges amid client allegations<\/a><\/p>\n KFOX14\/CBS4 spoke to Marivani’s victims back when he was first indicted in November 2025, who expressed their frustration over the lengthy legal process to seek justice and their money back.<\/p>\n One victim, speaking anonymously, expressed relief back when Marivani was first indicted, saying, “t’s been disheartening, disappointing, some anger in seeing his constant posts, that he’s still out there, I guess, hustling and making money so that, that that’s been, that’s been bothersome to me.”<\/p>\n Michael Fino, another victim named in the indictment, shared, “We had to go to the county’s attorney’s office. We basically, you know, we had to go to you guys. I believe some of us even went to a city hall meeting. It’s kind of a shame that we had to go to this extreme, you know, and then to be told that it might be, you know, it might be a misdemeanor, just a slap on the wrist, and he’s going to move on that. It was really disappointing. It was a struggle. It was a struggle,” Fino said.<\/p>\n Fino said he paid a $3,000 deposit for a gate and fence from FCS Wrought Iron, which he said he never received.<\/p>\n RELATED: FCS Wrought Iron faces new deceptive business practice charges<\/a><\/p>\n