Leo Sharp

Horticulturist career Sharp claimed to have been an owner of a small airline company that eventually went bankrupt. "Anyone who has over 100 daylilies in their garden would recognize it by sight," Kevin P. Walek, a former president of the American Hemerocallis Society said. The daylily cultivar Hemerocallis 'Siloam Leo Sharp' is named after him.

Daylily enthusiasts visited Sharp's flower farm near Michigan City, Indiana where he lived for decades. Sharp's neighbors in Michigan City recalled buses filled with customers outside his front gate waiting to buy his signature flowers, almost all named after his business Brookwood Gardens.

The criminal investigation was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Chris Graveline in the Eastern District of Michigan, culminating with indictments of 25 members of the organization including Sharp. He was released in 2015 due to declining health after only serving a year of his sentence. He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.