Builder charged with stealing $700,000 [South Florida]
An unlicensed Palm Coast contractor was accused Thursday of stealing more than $700,000 and the American dream from Russian and Ukrainian immigrants by selling houses he never finished — and in most cases never even started.
Gregory S. Bleyl, 64, was charged with six counts of forgery and grand theft totaling more than $700,000, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said. Bleyl, a former Palm Coast resident who now lives in Jacksonville, is being held at the Flagler County Inmate Facility on $500,000 bail.
Vladimir Lieberman, a real estate sales agent for Tavolacci Realty Inc. in Flagler Beach, acted as a sales agent of sorts for Bleyl, only to become a victim himself, investigators said.
“My first impression of Greg was that he was so good, and so nice and so professional,” Lieberman said in a telephone interview Thursday. That impression changed drastically. “He didn’t do nothing for you. He straight up lied to you.”