德克萨斯州证bob200体育券欺诈：休斯顿投资顾问因欺骗投资者而获得五年的监狱刑罚，以640万美元的钻石投资者欺诈案件渲染

Lawrence Allen DeShetler will serve 60 months in federal prison forTexas investor fraud。这位休斯顿男子在欺诈欺诈欺诈的欺诈行为中，他从五个客户那里征求了190万美元的赔偿金。

Starting in 2014, the former investment advisor, certified planner, and head of DeShetler & Company started persuading clients that if they let him invest their funds they would make higher returns. These clients took money from their investment accounts and gave them to him. Unfortunately, DeShetler used the money on himself.

He has since admitted to using some of investors’ funds to build a house abroad. DeShetler also admitted that he persuaded one widow who was an octogenarian to liquidate a trust and transfer nearly $190K to him. He even stayed in her home while she went away. Upon her return DeShetler was gone and so were her investment documents.

此前，得克萨斯州证券委员会指责休斯顿财务顾问建议一bob200体育位客户兑现IRA。然后，Deshetler将这些资金用于餐厅费用，乡村俱乐部的成本和其他账单。此后，该州撤销了他在德克萨斯州的投资顾问的注册。

In addition to prison time, DeShetler must pay almost $927K in restitution.

德克萨斯州的两名男子在640万美元的钻石投资欺诈中
其他德州证券欺诈bob200体育news, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced that Craig Allen Otteson and Jay Bruce Heimburger have been sentenced over their involvement in a $6.4M diamond investment scam. The two men pleaded guilty to mail fraud earlier this year.

Otteson, who was CCO of Stonebridge Advisors LLC and General Partner of Worldwide Diamond, will serve 121 months in prison and pay over $4.7M in restitution. Heimburger, who was a Worldwide Diamond Principal Partner, as well as registered as a JBH Securities agent, received a 97-month sentence. He too must pay over $4.7M in restitution. A third defendant, Houston resident Christopher Arnold Jiongo, will be sentenced later this month.

According to the indictment, Jiongo generated $50K diamond notes that he and the other two defendants turned into vehicles for bringing in investors’ money. They made it appear as if the money would go toward buying and reselling diamonds and that each dollar was totally secured.

However, once the men realized that their plan was not working and they would not be able to honor their commitments to investors, they allegedly failed to notify American Safe Retirements that none of the investors’ money was secure. They also deceived investors by not telling them that the investment strategy was a bust.

起诉书认为，从’11到13年，这三名被告“欺诈性地收集”了77名投资者的640万美元。他们还被指控造成带有虚假陈述的信件发送给德克萨斯州证券委员会和美国安全退休。bob200体育

作为他认罪协议的一部分，奥特森签署了文件，指出他和海姆伯格通过虚假的诺言和欺诈性陈述以及欺诈性地隐藏了他们的资金，以外，他们的资金是为了使他们的资金用于目的购买和转售钻石。此外，奥特森承认，他和海姆伯格（Heimburger）使一名销售代理商欺诈性地向23位加利福尼亚投资者出售了近190万美元的期票。

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休斯顿Adviser Who Preyed on Elderly Sentenced to 5 Years, Texas State Securities Board, November 2, 2017

Two North Texas men sentenced for roles in a $6.4 million diamond investment fraud scheme，Justice.gov，2017年11月9日

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Texas-Based Oil and Gas Company CEO Accused of Misappropriating Investor Funds, Stockbroker Fraud Blog, August 4, 2017

扩大的德克萨斯州证券案指控有六bob200体育个数百万美元的泵送骗局, Stockbroker Fraud Blog, July 21, 2017