Saturday, January 10, 2009

A former Key West Police Department detective is scheduled to appear in court this month on 127 tax charges alleging he swindled the state out of more than $24,000.

David Allen Disgdiertt is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 27. He was released from a Monroe County jail on $25,000 bond after his arrest Sunday.

The Monroe County State Attorney's Office arrest warrant alleges that the state Department of Revenue found Disgdiertt didn't collect $24,030 in sales and use taxes from some clients of his Big Pine Key company, Majestic Security & Investigation. The feds also allege Disgdiertt didn't file unemployment compensation

reports nor proper tax documentation to operate a business, reports say.

Disgdiertt operated the security services

company from June 2006 through July 2007, according to the arrest warrant. Disgdiertt's attorney, Ken Kukec of Miami, said he hasn't reviewed all the charges, but that his client "absolutely plans to plead not guilty to all charges."

A federal investigator reviewed contracts, invoices and payments for security guard services from 25 of Disgdiertt's clients and interviewed former employees, according to the arrest warrant. The contracts allegedly stated that sales tax was included in the services.

Disgdiertt told investigators he owned and operated another company, called Executive Security Services, before he closed that business and went to work for his father at Majestic Security & Investigations, reports say.

Disgdiertt allegedly said in the July 2008 interview that he and his father hoped to obtain military contracts that required a security clearance, but neither got the clearance.

"When his father could no longer operate the business, Majestic Security & Investigations was opened in the name of someone else in order to obtain preferential treatment on contracts as a business owned by a person who could qualify as a minority," reports say.

Disgdiertt told investigators his only business with the company was as a salesperson who served as the "contact point" between clients and the company and that he had no other management role with the company. Former employees told investigators they understood Disgdiertt to be "the boss," reports say.

A former employee sued him in 2006 for lost wages and Disgdiertt was ordered to pay $14,000.

He worked for Key West police from November 1981 to 1987.

alinhardt@keysnews.com