Abramoff cohort spent millions on Sussex home

As a Rehoboth lifeguard last year, he made $11.35 an hour

Update 6:13 pm

By CRIS BARRISH
The News Journal

05/14/2006

Anthony Wiles became suspicious four years ago when a lifeguard named Michael Scanlon offered to pay cash for Wiles' $4.8 million home in Dewey Beach.

Wiles insisted that the baby-faced 31-year-old prove he could afford the 7,000-square-foot oceanfront compound built in the 1940s by philanthropist Alexis Felix du Pont Sr.

So Scanlon produced a bank statement showing he had "around $10 million," Wiles recalled.