Gina Chiles to report to prison same day daughter Jordan competes for Olympic gymnastics gold

On July 27, gymnast Jordan Chiles is scheduled to compete for Team USA in the Olympic Games team all-around final in Tokyo.

By 6:10 a.m. PDT, Chiles is expected to be an Olympic champion.

Less than eight hours later, Gina Chiles, Jordan’s mother, is required to report to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to start a 1-year and 1-day sentence for wire fraud.

Gina Chiles agreed to the sentence as part of a plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Oregon, according to a previously unreported letter detailing the agreement filed with the court. Chiles must also pay more than $1.2 million in restitution, according to court documents.

Chiles ran Vision Property Management LLC, a commercial properties management business, according to court documents. Between 2014 and 2018, Chiles “devised and intended to devise a material scheme to defraud clients of lnspire Vision and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises,” according to multiple court filings by the U.S. Attorney’s office.

“As part of the services offered by Inspire Vision, defendant’s clients deposited funds in bank accounts to which defendant had access to and control. (Chiles) promised clients that she would use those funds to pay bills, oversee repairs and renovations to specific properties, and for costs associated solely with the management of commercial property,” the filings said. “Instead, (Chiles) diverted those client funds, deposited the funds into bank accounts owned and controlled by her and used the funds for her own personal use. Over the course of defendant’s scheme, she diverted more than $1 million in client funds.

“On or about May 4, 2018, for the purpose of executing the scheme to defraud described above, and attempting to do so, defendant caused to be transmitted by means of wire communication, in interstate commerce, $50,080 from a client’s bank account,” according to court filings.

Chiles could have faced a maximum of 20 years in federal prison. Instead, she agreed to the plea agreement on March 3, 2020. She was formally sentenced on Nov. 30. Under the terms of the agreement, Chiles “shall surrender for service of sentence at the institution designated by the Bureau of Prisons before 2:00 P.M. on July 27, 2021,” according to a sentencing document. In addition to the prison sentence, she must also make $1,218,877.78 in restitution and is subject to three years supervised release after leaving prison.

Chiles and her husband Timothy attended the Olympic Trials last month in St. Louis wearing “Team Chiles” t-shirts with a quote from their daughter on the back: “Believe in the power of your dreams.”

After graduating from Prairie High School in Brush Prairie, Washington, 25 miles north of Portland, in 2019, Jordan relocated to Spring, Texas, near Houston, to train with Olympic and World champion Simone Biles. Gina also moved to Texas to be with her daughter. Timothy Chiles remained in Washington.

Jordan Chiles, who has committed to UCLA, finished third in the all-around at the Trials, second on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam.

“It’s been a crazy ride,” Gina Chiles told Clark County Today.com recently.

An attorney for Gina Chiles did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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