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Abramoff cohort spent millions on Sussex homes
As a Rehoboth lifeguard last year, he made $11.35 an hour
By CRIS BARRISH
The News Journal

05/14/2006

Anthony Wiles became suspicious four years ago when a lifeguard named Michael Scanlon offered to pay cash for Wiles' $4.8 million home in Dewey Beach.

Wiles insisted that the baby-faced 31-year-old prove he could afford the 7,000-square-foot oceanfront compound built in the 1940s by philanthropist Alexis Felix du Pont Sr.

So Scanlon produced a bank statement showing he had "around $10 million," Wiles recalled.

"He told me he had done some lobbying for the Indian tribes and they paid him a large amount for casino work. I knew their casinos were profitable in Florida, and it appeared to be a legitimate way to get the money.
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