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If former Live Well Financial CEO Michael C. Hild is convicted on allegations that he was a mastermind in a multimillion-dollar bond fraud scheme, the federal government wants to be able to seize at least 29 properties and eight businesses that prosecutors claim were funded by his “crime proceeds.”

Federal prosecutors in New York filed documents last week detailing the assets owned by Hild and his wife, Laura Dyer Hild, who together have in recent years amassed the properties in Richmond’s Manchester, Blackwell and Swansboro neighborhoods with plans to redevelop them.

The eight businesses include Hot Diggity Donuts, Butter Bean Market & Cafe and Dogtown Brewing Co. — entities that the couple opened on Hull Street in South Richmond — as well as the Anderson’s Neck Oysters farming operations along the York River in King and Queen County. The other businesses include Church Hill Ventures LLC and Gardenia LLC, entities created to buy the properties.

The government claims those properties and businesses are assets that “constitute proceeds of Hild’s fraudulent scheme.”

“Due to his participation in the scheme, Hild personally obtained at least $20 million in proceeds from the scheme,” according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in New York that became available last Friday.