User talk:Davevillanueva

David Vilanueva was born in Trinidad on May 27th, 1951. He's the son of a former oil executive (father) and an english teach/stage actress (mother).

The family lived worldwide during his formative years but eventually settled in Canada. He was an athlete in high school and university succeeding in track and field, football, tennis and boxing. He would later try his hand at professional boxing posting a record of 13 and 5 (10 K.O.s) before setting on a career as a fullback with the Orlando Prediators of the AFL. A serve back injury forced his retirement at age 25.

He then attended Law school in the US before establishing a practice in the US. In 1987 he married Janis Murphy of Sarine, Ontario and together they had three children; Gareth, Emily and Aiden. In 1994, criminal charges of fraud were filed against him after a business venture involving his wife and his family/corporate lawyer. Villanueva was found "guilty" and sentenced to nearly eight years in prison. This was overturned on appeal and he was relesed from prison in 1999.

He remarried in 2000 to Kim Gould and they had one child born in 2001 (Jacqueline). In 2005, Villanueva was again charged with fraud when he ran afoul of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society. Villanueva then vanished for the next several years until re-emerging in Toronto as David Carter. he had been practiving law without a license and was charged accordingly in 2008 when he turned himself in.

He has been called a modern day Robin Hood as he has sprean much of the money he has been convicted of defrauding amount many charities and among the homeless in Toronto. He became involved in a relationship with Lindsey Neely in 2006 but the relationship did not last.

Villanueva currently resides in Toronto where he owns and runs severals businesses and continues in his charitable work giving away well over two million dollars annually to worthwhile causes. His net work is estimated at sixty million dollars.