Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos, said in a new interview that his former in-laws owe him big bucks, not the other way around.
Dulos, who is charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in his wife’s disappearance in May, griped to Fox News that he is owed just over $1 million by the estate of his wife’s late father despite a $2.5 million claim filed against him by her family last year.
Dulos claims the debt stems from business dealings between his home-building business, The Fore Group, and his former father-in-law, Hilliard Farber, who died in 2017.
“So, the money would go again both ways, but there were formal notes, there was substantial interest, and there was repayment of the loans,” Dulos said. “It was, again, a two-way relationship so, whenever the money was needed for construction projects, Hilliard would provide it.”
Farber’s widow claimed in a civil suit last year that her husband came out on the short end, and that Fotis Dulos owed his estate $2.5 million in unpaid loans.
But Dulos told Fox he reviewed financial papers and came up with a $1.04 million debt on his end.
Carrie Lift, a family spokeswoman for Jennifer Dulos’ parents, said: “As we face this first holiday season without Jennifer, our sole focus is on creating a safe and joyous Christmas for her five children, rather than on attempting to litigate this case through the media.”
The Fox interview is just the latest by the real estate developer who has been repeatedly been reminded of a gag order in the evidence tampering case.
He told Fox he would only discuss the civil case filed by Jennifer’s family.
He said his relationship with his ex-father-in-law was “excellent,” and that Farber “was a second father to me.” He said their business relationship “was always excellent.”
Dulos and his former gal pal, Michelle Traconis, were both charged in Jennifer’s disappearance and were spotted dumping garbage bags containing items soaked in the missing mom’s blood.
