According to records obtained by the Chicago Tribune, showed Scott Kennedy, 43, let an escort wipe him out for 5.8 Million on his company’s credit card.

The relationship started back in 2012, when Crystal Lundeberg met Kennedy through her Backpage.com ad, which advertised sexual services.

Agents say Kennedy solicited her services between eight and ten times from 2012 to May 2015.

By May 2015, Lundberg decided to step her game up. She began seeking financial assistance from Kennedy. Soon afterwards, she, her two young children, and her two dogs moved in with Kennedy at his suburban home.

By November, Lundberg had maxed out all of Kennedy’s personal credit cards. So he gave her access to the company credit card, after she asked for help buying Christmas gifts for her daughters, according to the filing.

At the time Kennedy worked for Nemera, a France-based global company, that produced pharmecutical drug delivery devices.

Over the next 16 months, the two churned through $5.79 million of company cash, authorities alleged.

Much of the spending came after Lundberg moved with her children, pets and potted plants to San Diego a year ago. The company unknowingly footed the bill for the $12,000-a-month rent at the mansion.

According to an analysis provided by Nemera to the FBI, Lundberg spent some $585,000 on the medical spa, called the Royalty Room.

Investigators found more than 8,800 improper charges to the company credit card between November 2015 and mid-March 2017.

This included money to front Lundberg’s own spa known as K&K Cosmetics, plastic surgery during a Lundenberg’s stay in Miami; two Rolex watches at a cost of a combined $60,000; a personal driver for her daughters at a cost of $8,000 a month; a $2,500-a-month maid; two purebred dogs that cost as much as $6,000; and trips to Bali; France; Costa Rica; Hawaii; Santorini, an island in the Aegean Sea; and Bora Bora and Fiji, both in the South Pacific

Almost $1million was spent on travel alone.

In the interview, Kennedy said he was duped by Lundberg because “I wanted to have a family.

“I wanted to be loved and cared for. My heart kind of overrid my head and said, ‘Take a chance,’” he told the Tribune. “Well, it blew up in my face.”

According to an analysis provided by Nemera to the FBI, Lundberg spent some $585,000 on the medical spa, called the Royalty Room (Lundeberg’s new business).

Much of the spending came after Lundberg moved with her children, pets and potted plants to San Diego a year ago- where she planned to open a spa — all with company cash.

“I’m the only person who has to answer for being stupid,” Kennedy, 43, said in a telephone interview with The Tribune this week.

The company unknowingly footed the bill for the $12,000-a-month rent at the mansion and an additional, $24,000 that was spent for movers to haul Lundberg’s potted plants from her home in Illinois to the new San Diego Mansion.

In March, while Kennedy was vacationing in Fiji on a trip he had expected to take with Lundberg, she texted him that she was “seriously freaking out” over just signing a $24,000-a-month, five-year lease. She said creditors wanted money and a payment was coming due, apparently for salon equipment.

“I’m going to have to start selling myself again,” Lundberg texted in a series of fragmented messages. “I was so close to (being) financially free. And u miss using ur Corp card scares the (expletive) out of me.”

Kennedy tried to reassure her, saying that if they get “5mm” from her dad “all will be good.”

“Do NOT sell yourself,” Kennedy wrote. “We will find a way.”

Kennedy also maintained to the FBI — as well as in the Tribune interview — that Lundberg had led him to believe she would eventually reimburse him. Lundberg claimed to Kennedy that she had been adopted by a wealthy family as a child and had a trust fund in her name worth $4 million that she could access at 30, according to the FBI filing.

But the FBI document notes Lundberg’s bankruptcy filing in 2009 when she reported only about $100 in a checking account and income of about $200 a month. In addition, the bankruptcy filing made no mention of any trust funds, the FBI pointed out.

“My mistake was trusting her,” Kennedy said in the interview. “At this point, I have very little faith anything she told me ever was true.”

Kennedy was fired from the company in March.

The allegations are detailed in a warrant to seize $36,229 from the checking account of the spa business allegedly started up by the onetime escort.

By May the FBI descended up Lundberg’s mansion and seized a white baby grand piano, a jaguar and a few other items.

At the time Lundenberg was having an everything must go estate sale.

The ad read:

“Unexpected move for Chicago Heiress with Designer EVERYTHING!” The posting promised that there would be more than a quarter of a million dollars of goods for sale.

“THIS IS TRULY THE SALE OF A LIFETIME AND WE ARE GENUINELY EXCITED TO HAVE ALL OF YOU JOIN US ….” the posting read. “Those of you who showed up the day of the FBI raid, again, we apologize profusely and hope you agree that it was all WORTH THE WAIT!!!!”

BREAKDOWN OF COMPANY CREDIT CARD CHARGES

Travel: $970,734

Bali

France

Costa Rica

Hawaii

Santorini

Island in the Aegean Sea

Bora Bora

Fiji

Clothing and Accessories: $606,887

Home décor and improvement: $552,662

Lodging: $441,312

San Diego mansion rent at $12,000/month

Entertainment: $315,117

Jewelry $279,231

Two Rolex watches for $60,000

Health and beauty: $253,019

Movers for the potted plants: $24,000

Personal driver: $8,000/month

Two purebred dogs: up to $6,000

Maid: $2,500/month

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