Real Estate Mogul Facing Costly Divorce Allegedly Tried To Kill Wife Again And Again

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A Miami real estate titan, who authorities said had waged a five-year campaign to kill his estranged wife, was found dead last month as FBI agents who planned to arrest him in an early-morning raid entered his $8 million waterfront mansion.

Attorneys for Sergio Pino, 67, claim federal law enforcement’s aggressive, “unprecedented and unnecessary” response led him on July 16 to kill himself. They dispute that he conspired to kill his wife — even as a 911 call released last week captured his adult daughter’s horrified reaction to an alleged hitman at her mother’s home.

“There’s a gun, there’s a guy with a gun, please,” Alessandra Pino pleads to a 911 dispatcher before saying she feared her mother might be shot.

Investigators said in court documents that they began investigating Sergio Pino in July 2022 for “multiple contracts” to kill his wife, Tatiana Pino, 55, dating back to 2019 and continuing through this June, an FBI agent said in an arrest warrant for one of his alleged co-conspirators. Their attacks included poisoning, arson, a hit-and-run and two gun-related attempts, authorities said in court documents. Alessandra Pino— who called 911 on June 23 after she said one suspect grabbed her and pointed a gun at her head — and Tatiana Pino’s sister were also allegedly victims of the various schemes, which included at least one threatening letter and vandalism.

The Pinos had been embroiled in contentious divorce proceedings since Tatiana Pino initially filed in April 2022 to end their 30-year marriage. In a deposition that