Jose Lantigua, the Jacksonville businessman once reported dead in South America, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal fraud charges over a multimillion-dollar life insurance scam. Lantigua, the former owner of Circle K Furniture, was businesslike and soft-spoken as he admitted to U.S. Magistrate Patricia Barksdale that he planned his 2013 disappearance and a story about dying of mad cow disease. “Have you told the truth today?” Barksdale asked Lantigua, who had a beard and gray hair that brushed his orange jail jumpsuit. read more