Pathological Liar Mark Stopa Continues to Terrorize Victims With Impunity With Help From The Florida Court System

We all know the story of Pinocchio – the fictional boy whose nose grows when he tells a lie.

Pathological Liar Mark Stopa is a living Pinocchio and he is living in Pinellas Park. This is his story.

It is difficult to know where to begin but cue the Law & Order theme.

Mark Stopa’s entire legal career has been marred by corruption, fraud, thievery, and endless lies.

Belial, the father of lies, was cast out from heaven for being a liar from the very beginning. All liars do the work of their father. The narcissist Stopa is a master at beguiling his victims.

Over the years, Stopa has beguiled his own family, friends, clients, business associates, politicians, and Judges.

Yes, even Judges have been fooled by him.

Stopa is extremely persuasive and seems to have a strong hypnotic power over weak-willed people which is just inexplicable. It’s as if he is some type of Sith Lord placing spells on those he wishes to control and coerce into doing his bidding.

Childhood friends say the lies began when he was a young special needs student. Additionally, they say the lies progressed through high school. They say the years of family abuse and constant rejection led Stopa into very dark dances with the devil.

Former college friends admit they engaged in some pretty weird Crowley sex magic occult shit while at Wake Forest. Stopa was mesmerized by it all. As a result, they questioned whether he made the ultimate deal and sold his soul.

Mark Stopa Lies to the Florida Bar

The Florida Bar found Stopa to have severe mental impairment during his disbarment proceedings. Judge Allen even stated that Stopa suffered from several mental issues. These issues included narcissism, defensiveness, poor judgment, anger management issues. In addition Judge Allen stated Stopa has an uncanny inability to tell the truth nor does he have any lack of self-insight. She also added he suffers from paranoia and lack of impulse control.

In short, they determined that Mark Stopa is a crazy, angry, lying, schizoaffective sociopath.

Are these not the same symptoms of one possessed by otherworldly dark entities?

The Florida Bar ultimately disbarred Stopa and recommended he receive mental health treatment – specifically anger management and impulse control therapy.

The biggest point of contention in the trial was the fact that Stopa lied about the matters described in Dossier 1.0. Despite rock-solid public record proof of Mark Stopa’s crimes, together with an FDLE investigation and sworn testimony from former clients, Mark Stopa LIED to the Florida Bar calling the allegations “baseless”.

He maintained he did nothing wrong by stealing hundreds of homes from his own clients over the years – all so he could pocket the rents and skim the equity for himself.

Instead, Stopa tried to deflect his own crimes. Stopa fabricated a fantastical story of how the big bad banks hired private investigators. These investigators then wrote a false dossier in order to “take him out” because he was “winning too much”.

All lies.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire!

Mark Stopa LIES about Dossier 1.0

The subject matter in Dossier 1.0 was a matter of public record and indisputable. Stopa was very sloppy in his fraud. He left left multiple and very visible digital public record tracks that prove his crimes. All the evidence is recorded in the public records. Everyone can see it for themselves and learn the truth about him.

But despite this, Stopa LIED and fabricated the big bad bank private investigator story anyway. The truth is Dossier 1.0 was not written by the big banks and Mark Stopa knows this to be true. Stopa just LIES about it and twists the facts to fit his false narrative. What’s his narrative? Stopa claims he is the “good guy” who is being unfairly persecuted by big evil banks.

He later wrote a book titled “People v Money” where he stated all the Judges were incompetent and taking kickbacks from corporations. He even delved deeper into this grand conspiracy by banks to take him down. The entire book is all lies. All a very sad fabrication from a seriously mentally ill man was busted for ripping off his clients.

The Amazon book flopped because no one purchased it. Now it’s relegated to only being purchased as an eBook. His attempt to start a “People v Money” movement on YouTube fizzled with only 55 subscribers. Stupid pet tricks get more views and subscribers than Stopa has.

In short – Stopa’s book was one BIG LIE, and the people knew it.

Stopa tried to position himself as a white messiah fighting for “The People.” Yet. “the people” spoke. They soundly rejected Stopa by laughing at him as nothing more than a fraud and a thief. But, Stopa is used to rejection. He has been rejected his entire life.

Mark Stopa LIES on Social Media

Even now, Stopa continues to live a delusional lie. On his Twitter profile, he fancies himself as some sort of self-proclaimed investing expert, and refers to himself as an “international best-selling author”.

The truth is he is NOT a best-selling author and he is NOT an investing expert. It is all LIES. All a delusion fabricated by the mind of a madman.

But as Nazi Joseph Goebbels said – “if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.” and this has been Stopa’s life long strategy with everything.

Keep the facts vague and nebulous, lie and manipulate the situation as you see fit. Repeat the lies enough times and weak-willed fools will ultimately believe it to be true so you can create your own reality.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

There are so many lies upon lies. Everything Stopa says is a lie.

He is so full of lies it seems he is utterly incapable of telling the truth.

Mark Stopa LIES to His Children

Let’s call Mark Stopa what he is. He’s a pathological liar and conman. Stopa also lies to his own children. He exploited them as mere “stage props” on social media to cast himself as the perfect loving family man. Why? He did it to lure in more client victims for his law practice.

He would take photo ops of his young kids placing Stopa Law Firm signs around town. Stopa also used his own children as marketing props on family vacations. He wanted to make sure he got good photo footage of him being the perfect smiling father in exotic places. He also posted the pictures as marketing ploys all over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in order to attract new client victims.

It seems Stopa was desperate to create the false appearance of true love and happiness that has always eluded him in his real life.

In 2014, Stopa used his own 8-year-old son Markus to fabricate a false story in order to promote his law practice and attract new client victims. As Stopa tells the fake story, he says that his son randomly asked him one day…

“Why can’t you give away a house, Daddy?”

Does anyone really believe that an 8-year-old would randomly ask a question like this?

The truth is by 2014, the Stopa-Federico Crime Family was in full gear and by that time Stopa had stolen hundreds of homes from his own clients. The fraud and corruption was so bad, the guilt was beginning to affect even his cold-stone Grinch heart.

Rumors were beginning to swirl and complaints about his fraud were pouring into the Florida Bar. Stopa was desperate to divert attention and change the media narrative so he used his son and concocted the free house giveaway contest.

He shamelessly self-promoted himself by inviting the media to film him giving away $100 bills to homeless drug addicts and interview him where he regurgitated the fabricated free house story in faked eye-watering emotional interviews with reporters.

View the “Cover Up Con” professionally produced video here.

Stopa is so delusional and so out of touch with reality, he actually thought everyone would believe these staged false marketing flags emanated organically from his own kindness.

It is clear the pathological lying and mental illness are taking their toll on his family. Now that they are getting older and can reason for themselves – even his own children are beginning to realize their father is crazy.

It is so bad, Stopa’s children are now distancing themselves from him by publicly adopting their mother’s family surname, “FEDERICO” – rebuking the highly toxic STOPA last name.

You know it’s bad when your own children turn on you and refuse to use your family surname. How incredibly emasculating and embarrassing that must be for him.

Former friends say Stopa is a loner and has no real friends. He is extremely paranoid and difficult to be around, which pushes people away.

Stopa prefers to live in his own delusional world of fantasy football where he can be whatever he LIES himself to be. Where he can just LIE and proclaim himself to be an expert and international bestseller even though his amazon sales flopped and his attempt at creating a “People v Money Movement” fizzled out with only 55 subscribers.

Mark Stopa LIED About His Law Practice

For years Stopa bragged about having over 7,000 law clients. Which is a BIG LIE. The Stopa Law Firm client list filed in the Federal bankruptcy court under penalty of perjury reveals less than 3,500 actual clients.

Stopa just conveniently LIED and DOUBLED his number of clients to “over 7,000” in order to create the appearance of having more success than he actually had.

Stopa was also famous for saying he had “over 2,000 foreclosure dismissals” throughout his career. This is yet another BIG LIE. 2,000 dismissals across 3,500 clients would be a 57% dismissal rate – which legal experts say is statistically impossible.

The truth is Stopa had fewer than 200 dismissals that can be documented in the public records. It appears he conveniently added an extra zero to that number and LIED about his success as a deceptive business practice marketing ploy to attract more clients (victims).

Mark Stopa LIED to His Clients

Stopa was famously known for NEVER TALKING to his own clients. He always had office proxies and paralegals do the talking (lying) for him. A former intake manager said Stopa encouraged him to promise to get his potential clients a free house in order to get the client to sign and pay the money.

Stopa was also famous for NEVER doing loan modifications. A former paralegal reports that Stopa’s financial model for the firm was to get clients on a monthly subscription and keep them paying as long as possible to create a solid monthly cash flow.

Getting a dismissal on a case was not to help his client save their home. A dismissal was a way for Stopa to collect additional lump sum attorney fees from the bank and fool his client into believing they were winning in order to keep them paying.

What you never hear Stopa talk about is on every single case dismissal – the bank eventually came back with a new filing where his client ultimately lost their home to foreclosure.

This was the financial model of the firm and anything that jeopardized this that would help clients actually save their homes and get out of foreclosure – like doing a Loan modification – was not allowed.

Mark Stopa LIED About LOAN MODS

The standing orders in Stopa Law Firm were NO LOAN MODS.

A former paralegal said banks were handing out loan mods like Free candy. Over the years, they literally received THOUSANDS of pre-approved loan modification offers from banks that were covered up by Mark Stopa himself and never presented to his clients. All because he didn’t want to resolve the client case and have the cash flow stop.

Many of the bank offers were incredible deals and would have helped thousands of Stopa’s clients actually SAVE their homes from foreclosure. But Stopa wasn’t interested in helping his clients. He was only interested in helping himself get rich. Since a loan modification would RESOLVE the case and STOP the client cashflow, Stopa would NOT ALLOW the firm to do loan modifications.

Clients were NEVER informed their bank was offering a way for them to save their home.

The end result was thousands of Mark Stopa clients were needlessly evicted from their homes after foreclosure.

The real truth is by covering up Loan Mods – Mark Stopa caused more clients to LOSE their home to foreclosure than any other attorney in Florida.

Stopa’s clients could have actually saved their homes if he simply told them the truth and didn’t LIE to unjustly enrich himself.

When his clients got tired of paying to defend the foreclosure, Stopa would LIE and pull them into his own rent equity skimming scam.

Stopa would LIE and tell his clients that he had an “investor” that would pay them money for the deed to their home. Only Stopa lied and never disclosed that this mystery investor was HIM. He used New Mexico LLCs to conceal his identity.

When he had a client that wanted out, Stopa would fabricate a large legal bill in order to avoid having to pay any money for the Deed. Instead, he would lie to his own client and tell them that the money the “investor” was paying would be retained by Stopa to cover his outstanding legal fees. In this way, Stopa would STEAL his clients home for nothing.

Mark Stopa LIES to His Wife Adrienne Federico

Building up the Stopa-Federico Crime Family hasn’t been easy. All the fraud and corruption caused a great deal of stress in his marriage to Adrienne Federico over the years.

Those early years were plagued by Stopa’s philandering and constant money troubles. Adrienne filed for divorce in Pinellas county in 2007 (Case 07-9814-FD) and again in Manatee County in 2010 (Case 2010DR-3791) before fleeing to Duval county with the kids to be closer to her old flame Phil Garfinkle who was already rich and could better support the children.

Stopa then filed a lawsuit in Manatee county against his own wife in 2013 (Case 2013DR-5332) seeking to have a family court judge force her to return with the kids.

Mark Stopa loves manipulating family court judges with Jedi mind tricks 🙂

Stopa Entices His Wife With A Multi-Million Dollar Home

As a way to entice his wife and kids to come back to him, in 2013 Stopa purchased the infamous Jayne Carusso foreclosure home at 7351 Sawgrass Point Dr., Pinellas Park for them to live in. As related in the Tampa Bay Times article, Jayne Carusso didn’t even know who Mark Stopa was and she most certainly NEVER hired him to represent her in foreclosure.

Yet Stopa filed a fraud-on-the-court notice of appearance to defend Bank of America v Jayne Carusso, Pinellas foreclosure Case No 09-17063-CI AFTER she LOST her home in an HOA auction where HE WAS THE BUYER. (Bayou Club Community v Jayne Carusso, 12-9100-CI).

Ask yourself WHY would Jayne Carusso need to hire Mark Stopa to defend a home she just lost to an HOA foreclosure if HE was the new owner? Stopa then later SUED “his client” JAYNE CARUSSO in a Quiet Title scam, Pinellas Case No 15-723-CI, seeking to eliminate the Bank of America mortgage on the home to win a FREE HOUSE.

It was all one big Quiet Title scam to defraud a federally insured mortgage lender.

Since Stopa still wasn’t reconciled with his wife, in October 2013, he purchased a second home in the same subdivision only a few streets away at 9937 Sago Point Dr. to live in by himself to be closer to his kids. Stopa eventually lost this home to foreclosure in 2017 and was homeless so he was forced to move into the Sawgrass Point home.

Mark Stopa Plotted to Dump His Wife Adrienne in 2016

Stopa and his wife eventually reconciled and it might have seemed like smooth sailing. However, there is so much Adrienne doesn’t know about the enemy within her own house.

What Adrienne didn’t realize was Stopa was plotting to divorce and dump her in 2016. Former associates say he was back to his philandering ways. He also repeatedly bragged about having sexual liaisons with young Plaintiff attorneys. Some of these attorneys were opposing counsel in several of his foreclosure cases. Yes, the lawyers that Stopa was bragging about having sex with were also trying to kick his clients out of their homes. (Holy conflict of interest, Batman!)

Stopa confided how his marriage was dead and his wife was faking it for the kids. That really angered Stopa. He decided he didn’t need Adrienne anymore. He then conspired to remove her from the Stopa-Federico Crime Family. Stopa wanted to keep all the ill-gotten assets for himself.

Stopa secretly entered into an agreement to purchase a $2 Million luxury mansion in Madeira Beach without Adrienne’s knowledge. He insisted the purchase arrangement be kept confidential and off the record until after he divorced his wife. Stopa didn’t want her having a claim to it as a marital asset.

But everything changed when she discovered the plot. To calm her down and prevent yet another divorce filing, Stopa fabricated a story about the home being a joint venture investment where he just made a loan. He then filed a frivolous lawsuit against the owner, falsely claiming fraud and civil theft when the truth was Stopa simply defaulted on a purchase agreement and lost his deposit.

Mark Stopa LIES to Judges About Dossier 2.0 Scam

Mark Stopa has been lying to Judges his entire career. But his latest Dossier 2.0 foreclosure surplus scam he is running out of Segal & Schuh Law Firm is hands down the greatest lying deception of his career.

Over the last several months alone, Stopa together with his crime family has stolen over $2 Million dollars running the largest RICO foreclosure fraud scam in the history of the State of Florida. Stopa repeatedly LIES to county court judges submitting fraud-on-the-court fabricated fake “debt” complaints seeking to trick judges into signing foreclosure judgments to validate the fraud.

The negative equity homes are already owned by Mark Stopa and in foreclosure with a senior mortgage lender. Stopa fabricates a county court judgment for under $30,000 in order to trick auction buyers into overbidding on the property in order to create a surplus that Stopa manipulates the clerk to collect on his behalf.

It is hands down the cleverest lying scam Stopa has ever perpetrated.

Why rob a bank when you can LIE and manipulate county court judges and clerks to do the stealing for you.

Despite FDLE confirming off the record that Mark Stopa himself is “very well aware” of their ongoing dual investigations of his crime family, Stopa continues to LIE calling the accusations of criminality “baseless”.

Even now Stopa is suing a prominent blogger who is courageous enough to speak out about his crimes. Stopa has continually perjured himself in court filings with all sorts of false allegations where he asserts his opponents are making up lies about him being a criminal.

Stopa recently tricked a Pinellas family court judge into entering an injunction against a politically well-connected blogger in order to silence him. The Judge was wholly unprepared for the hearing and totally beguiled by Stopa’s demonic powers of persuasion.

Under penalty of perjury, Stopa claimed the blogger doxxed his personal home address. The Judge asked Stopa directly if his address or private information appeared anywhere online and Stopa LIED TO THE JUDGE and said NO.

If the Judge just did a simple Google Search of “Mark Stopa”, it would reveal NUMEROUS links to public record sites where his home address and private information is already public record information.

STOPA LIED TO THE JUDGE! He claimed the blogger doxxed his personal home address. Consequently, this LIE induced the Judge to falsely enter an injunction.

The case is currently on appeal. Sources say the JQC is now looking into the matter to reprimand the errant Judge.

Play the video below:

Google “Mark Stopa” and See For Yourself

When you search “Mark Stopa” the following sites show his home address. Stopa’s home address and “private information” is already in the public domain. Therefore, it was NOT doxxed by the blogger. Stopa is also well aware of this. Process servers show up at his house on a weekly basis.

https://voterrecords.com/voter/13950260/mark-stopa

https://www.usphonebook.com/mark-p-stopa/U0ATNzYTOxQzM1ITMwIzNzMTMy0yR

https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/px2lrrn20l2ur4l96ru04

https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/mark-stopa_id_G-2133720125341963504

https://www.yellowbook.com/people/mark-stopa/

So Many Mark Stopa LIES…

It is one thing to lie. However, it’s also another when those lies lead to massive crimes. rimes where millions of dollars are stolen from innocent victims.

Below is a list of 17 cases of lies and deception where Mark Stopa and his corrupt crime family LIED to county court judges to steal over $2 Million dollars from innocent auction buyers whose only fault is they were trying to find a home to buy.

After TRASHING Judges as corrupt in a failed book, he is now manipulating these same Judges to do his bidding to steal millions of dollars from innocent auction buyers.

These lazy Pinellas Judges should read his book. They would learn what Stopa really thinks of them. They would also learn the truth and would throw him out of court. Instead, they feed into his bullshit and rule in his favor. Stopa is now manipulating the entire judiciary to mercilessly prosecute and SLAPP anyone who speaks out about his crimes.

Stopa’s victims are also terrified to speak out against him for fear. Stopa will retaliate by litigating people into bankruptcy as a pro-se litigant.

Stopa also claims all the allegations of his criminality are “baseless.”

However, you can research the cases below and you will see the truth for yourself.

Perhaps Stopa can use his now 16 year old son to fabricate yet another FREE HOUSE giveaway scam. This way he can return some of the millions of dollars he stole and help these 26 homeless people he defrauded find a home to live in.

“If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him. For then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.”

– Arthur Schoperhauer

This is what happens when a former lawyer and THIEF LIES to the court:

In Memoriam…

Here Are Small Sample of 26 Victims. Psychotic Pinocchio Stopa Scammed Over $2.1 Million From These Victims.

Scam #1: Pinellas 21-8887-CO Fraud on the Court | Specialized Property Management LLC v Quest Systems LLC
Property Address: 2924 Lichen Lane, Unit B, Clearwater, FL 33760
Stopa Auction Victim: JL Home Enterprises LLC | Total Stolen by Stopa Federico Crime Family: $91,000

Disbursements of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Specialized Property Mgmt: $24,189.26
Stopa Defendant Quest Systems LLC: $66,810.74

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Scam #2: Pinellas 22-466-CO Fraud on the Court | BCP Management LLC v Uni Trustee Services LLC
Property Address: 2052 Kings Highway, Unit 4, Clearwater, FL 33755
Stopa Auction Victim: Ali Abuelreish | Total Stolen by Stopa Federico Crime Family: $100,300

Disbursements of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff BCP Management LLC: $15,448.56
Stopa Defendant Uni Trustee Services LLC: $84,851.44

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Scam #3: Pinellas 22-3018-CO Fraud on the Court | Uni Trustee Services LLC v. Quest Systems LLC
Property Address: 4837 Eagle Cove Blvd., Palm Harbor, FL 34685
Mark Stopa Auction Victim 1: Spiro Naco | Bid: $350,100 | Total Stolen: $17,238.92 (forfeited deposit)
Stopa Auction Victim 2: Pinellas Park 22 Realty Trust | Bid: $87,100 | Total Stolen: $4,283.25 (forfeited deposit)
Stopa Auction Victim 3: Orsola Angelino | Bid & Total Stolen: $106,100

Disbursements of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Uni Trustee Services: $29,500
Stopa Defendant Quest Systems LLC: $92,251.56

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Scam #4: PASCO 22CC-1116 Fraud on the Court | Pay Your Mortgage LLC v Inland Assets LLC
Property Address: 10420 Tecoma Dr., New Port Richey, FL 34655
Stopa Auction Victim: Christopher Dennison | Total Stolen: $200,100

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Pay Your Mortgage LLC: $29,182.57
Stopa Defendant Inland Assets LLC: $170,874.43

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Scam #5: PASCO 21CA-2670 Fraud on the Court | Specialized Property Management LLC v Casco Antiguo LLC
Property Address: 10236 Rattana Court, Wesley Chapel, FL 33545
Stopa Auction Victim: Owners Self Finance | Total Stolen: $52,300

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Specialized Property Management LLC: $31,114.64
Stopa Defendant Casco Antiguo LLC: $21,142.36

*****

Scam #6: PASCO 22CC-447 Fraud on the Court | Specialized Property Management LLC v Viti Leve LLC
Property Address: 7014 Oakshire Dr., Port Richey, FL 34668
Stopa Auction Victim 1: Alina Chamberlain | Bid: $16,200 | Total Stolen: $810.00 forfeited deposit
Stopa Auction Victim 2: Promise Construction | Bid & Total Stolen: $23,600

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Specialized Property Management LLC: $16,663.14
Stopa Defendant Viti Leve LLC: $7,727.21

*****

Scam #7: Hillsborough 22CC-10683 Fraud on the Court | My Own Home LLC v Jacaranda LLC
Property Address: 11724 Moffat Ave., Tampa, FL 33617
Stopa Auction Victim: Jessy Joseph | Total Stolen: $161,585.70

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff My Own Home LLC: $27,538.54
Stopa Defendant Jacaranda LLC: $130,533.46

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Scam #8: Hillsborough 22CC-38645 Fraud on the Court | Cash For Keys Florida LLC v Jacaranda LLC
Property Address: 11308 Blackbark Dr., Riverview, FL 33579
Stopa Auction Victims: Leland Thomas & Heather Thomas | Total Stolen: $76,350.90

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Cash for Keys Florida LLC: $26,503.64
Stopa Defendant Jacaranda LLC: $48,168.36

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Scam #9: Hillsborough 22CC-5925 Fraud on the Court | Blackrock Asset Mgmt LLC v Uni Trustee Services LLC
Property Address: 5041 Sunridge Palms, Unit 101, Tampa, FL 33617
Stopa Auction Victim: 250 Logistics LLC | Total Stolen: $78,803.70

Disbursement of ill-gotten funds:
Stopa Plaintiff Blackrock Asset Management LLC: $16,860.14
Stopa Defendant Uni Trustee Services LLC: $60,211.86

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