In the weeks before his death, Pino had repeatedly denied the murder-for-hire allegations. In a note to his employees obtained by the Miami Herald and dated July 15, he double downed, maintaining his innocence. 'I love You all from wherever I am,' Pino wrote. 'I promise you that I never tried to hurt anyone.' He also suggested that he did not plan to let himself be arrested. 'I am not going to lose my freedom,' he wrote in the same note.
When asked why she thought Pino would have been making changes to trusts and other entities that day, Nancy Pastor, Pino's longtime girlfriend and business associate, said, 'Sounds like he wanted to make sure that everything was in order.' This indicates a premeditation of his actions, showing he may have realized the gravity of his situation shortly before taking his life.
Before his death by suicide last month, the wealthy Miami-Dade real estate developer had been under a federal investigation looking into whether he hired men to threaten and attempt to kill his estranged wife, Tatiana Pino. As federal agents closed in on Sergio Pino, new court records show he may have been getting his affairs in order as he prepared to take his life.
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