德克萨斯证券bob200体育欺诈: Investors Bilked $68M Dallas Ponzi Scam Hoping To Recover Funds Via Rare Guitar Auction

One year after The Rand Family pled guilty to bilking over 200 investors in $68MDallas Ponzi scam，他们的许多昂贵仪器都在拍卖。销售中的钱将用于偿还受害者。

The Rand Family, who owned oil and gas owned Aspen Exploration, scammed investors into financing the operation and drilling of a number of Texas oil wells. At least a 40% return was promised. However, not all of the investors’ monies went to drilling oil. Instead, US Postal investigators discovered that the family was using some of the funds to pay for their expensive lifestyle, which included private jets, yachts, country club membership, and the purchase of real estate, jewelry, musical instruments, and an original Picasso.

Their company, Aspen, sold net revenue interests and working interests in a number of wells in the Rancho Blanco Corporation State Gas Unit in Texas. Prosecutors accused the Rands of making false representations, such as telling them that their money, which would only be commingled when necessary, would go toward testing, drilling, and completion of a well and that they would managerial rights. Instead, the money was moved out of Aspen’s bank accounts as the defendants spent it on personal expenses and to drill and pay for the operation of other wells.

兰德斯对他们的有罪认罪协议德克萨斯证券bob200体育欺诈:

威廉·安东尼·托尼·兰德：一项证券欺诈罪，是一项串谋犯bob200体育邮件欺诈的罪名。

Greg Rand:Three counts of securities fraud, one county of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Bill Rand:Three counts of securities fraud
Mark Rand:Fraud

(Joel Peterson: One count of securities fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Peterson worked at Aspen in sales.)

检察官声称，阿斯彭（Aspen）忽略了告诉投资者，该公司的财务经理托尼·兰德（Tony Rand）过去曾经为证券欺诈而待命。bob200体育

In a separate oil and gas scam, yet another son, Wayne Anthony Rand, pleaded guilty to theft. In that financial scheme, $8M was raised from victims for Black Lake Energy Inc./Rock Wall Oil Co. Also, last month, a fifth son, Jeff Rand, was sentenced to 57 years behind bars for defrauding investors of $7.9 million for another oil and gas scheme.

兰德家族乐器的拍卖定于本周末进行。所提供的作品包括1959年的吉布森·莱斯·保罗·桑伯斯·萨默斯特左手吉他和1960年的莱斯·保罗（Les Paul）也是左撇子（只有另外两个人。还有另外两个左手吉他：1965年的Strat Sunburst和1959年的Fender Stratocaster Hardtail。

在达拉斯庞氏骗局中查获的稀有吉他进行拍卖, Forbes, October 22, 2012

Family members plead guilty in oil and gas scam, Dallas News, January 26, 2011

JEFF RAND SENTENCED TO 57 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFRAUDING INVESTORS OF $7.9 MILLION, US Department of Justice, August 27, 2012

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