Bodybuilding N.J. Debt Collector Charged With Loan Sharking
- Renato Gioe traveled the U.S. collecting cash-advance debts
- Gioe worked for Par Funding, a major cash-advance firm
Gino Gioe enters the Los Angeles office of Radiant Images on Feb. 15, 2018, captured by a surveillance camera.
Source: Complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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A convicted felon and bodybuilder who collected debts for one of the nation’s largest merchant cash-advance companies was arrested in New Jersey last week on loan-sharking charges.
Renato “Gino” Gioe sent threatening text messages to a small-business owner who owed him money, and later confronted the man at his home and said words to the effect of, “I’m going to kill you,” according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark.