Genovese Joblove & Battista shareholder Jonathan E. Perlman, as court-appointed receiver in a Florida fraud case, has sued PNC Bank for allegedly aiding and abetting an $85 million phony debt relief scheme.

The bank is accused of helping businessman Jeremy Lee Markus, who used more than 30 businesses and individuals to run the scheme with Craig Smith and Yisbet Segrea, according to a May 2017 lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and the Florida attorney general’s Office of Legal Affairs. Pompano debt relief companies 321 Loans Inc. and Helping America Group LLC are among more than 15 accused.