AVERY
CHAPMAN

He brought institutional authority to the operation

Chapman’s published professional biography identifies him as the founding chair of The Florida Bar’s Equine Law Committee. His curriculum vitae describes substantial work in equine litigation and prior involvement with the United States Polo Association. Those credentials matter because they supplied Polo United with something Desenzani and Dorignac could not manufacture alone: legal and institutional credibility.

The Florida Bar’s disciplinary record also shows that Chapman was publicly reprimanded in 2017. The underlying matter involved trust-account and bookkeeping violations; the record did not find intentional theft. That distinction is important. The reprimand is a documented disciplinary fact—not permission to inflate it into a crime the Bar did not find.

The reported NDAs came before the Florida company

Part V reports that a Taqueada participant identified Chapman as the lawyer who drafted and issued confidentiality agreements connected to settlements with people who had sued Desenzani in California. According to that source, silence was a condition of settlement.

The existence and purpose of those agreements are presented here as a reported allegation, not an independently adjudicated fact. The investigation’s conclusion is sharper: if the account is accurate, the confidentiality provisions helped contain warnings about Taqueada before Desenzani reappeared in Florida with Polo United.

Chapman became Polo United’s registered agent

Florida Division of Corporations records identify Avery S. Chapman, Esq. as the registered agent for Polo United USA LLC. The company’s filing became effective July 1, 2024—after the California disputes described in the investigation and while Polo United was soliciting customers and money in Florida.

A registered agent is not automatically responsible for a company’s conduct. The role is nevertheless concrete: Chapman accepted the official legal position for the entity and became its designated point of contact. Combined with his prior representation and the reported California settlement work, the appointment connected the same lawyer to both chapters of the operation.

He did not remain at professional distance

The photographs show Chapman inside Polo United’s social and sporting circle. He played polo, appeared with Desenzani and Dorignac, sat beside Alex Meshechok on Polo United-branded chairs and fielded a team promoted as Chapman Law. The images do not prove participation in fraud. They do establish proximity, continued association and a relationship extending beyond anonymous legal work.

A court was told Desenzani had “passed away”

On February 11, 2025, Chapman filed a document titled Suggestion of Death in the Florida litigation, stating that Ciro Desenzani had “passed away.” The filing was accompanied by a request for abatement and a motion to withdraw.

Part VI documents what happened next: a source said Desenzani was still alive; Wendy Ouriel contacted St. Mary’s Medical Center; the hospital confirmed that he remained there, alive and in a coma. The filing was therefore inconsistent with the condition reported and verified by the investigation.

This page does not call the filing a death certificate—it was not one—and it does not claim a court found that Chapman knowingly lied. The documented issue is serious enough without embroidery: an officer of the court represented a living man as dead.

A federal lawsuit was filed in his name

The federal docket for Desenzani et al. v. Ouriel et al., Case No. 9:25-cv-80050, shows that the action was filed on January 13, 2025—eight days after Desenzani reportedly entered a coma. Desenzani and Michel Dorignac were named as plaintiffs, with Chapman appearing as counsel.

The docket proves the filing and its timing. It does not, by itself, prove who authorized the action or what Chapman knew about Desenzani’s capacity on January 13. It creates an obvious unanswered question: how did a man in a coma review, approve or direct litigation filed in his name?

After service problems and court scrutiny, a notice of voluntary dismissal was filed. No ruling found Chapman guilty of fraud or professional misconduct in that case. The sequence remains part of the public record and central to the investigation.

The documents reveal a role larger than defense counsel

The investigation’s conclusion is that Chapman supplied Polo United with legal continuity: confidentiality in California, a registered-agent role in Florida, defense of Desenzani and Dorignac when customers sued, and aggressive filings after Desenzani’s catastrophic injury.

That is Wendy Ouriel’s analysis—not a criminal judgment. The proven facts are the corporate filing, the litigation record, the Bar discipline and the photographs. The NDA account is attributed to a Taqueada source. Any theory that Chapman coordinated with Meshechok or Cookson to control assets remains an inference and should be read as such.