Wedding venue owner admits stealing $1M from couples and investors: ‘Don’t mess with brides’

Fuente: New York Post

The owner of a popular North Carolina wedding venue has admitted stealing more than $1 million from couples and investors by charging for “all-inclusive” packages that he never provided. Jason Lottman, 43, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty on July 6 to scamming customers and investors at his now-shuttered Champaign Manor, a popular wedding venue in Monroe, according to federal prosecutors. He charged couples for all-inclusive packages — just to not pay the vendors, forcing couples to pay a second time for DJs, florists and photographers to rescue their big days.