Oh My Fraud

When confronted with irregularities in his employer’s books, an accountant goes into hiding.

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·  End of the Trail: Fugitive Comptroller [ACFE Fraud Magazine]
·  Fugitive Spent Years Hiding on the Appalachian Trail [FBI]
·  FBI Announces Arrest of Fugitive Suspect James T. Hammes [FBI]
·  Former Fugitive Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $8.7 Million from Employer [DOJ]
·  Former Fugitive Sentenced to 96 Months in Prison [DOJ]
·  Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator [BOP]
·  A Long Walk's End [SB Nation]
·  A Killer Hiding on the Appalachian Trail? [The Daily Beast]
·  Accountant who hid on Appalachian Trail jailed for embezzling millions from Pepsi bottler [Accounting Today]
·  Man facing $8.7M embezzlement case hid on Appalachian Trail [Associated Press]
·  Trail hiker pleads guilty to wire fraud in embezzling case [Associated Press]
·  Judge sentences trail-hiking fugitive to 8 years in prison [Associated Press]
·  Kentucky accountant who fled embezzlement case to appeal [Associated Press]
·  Man admits embezzling millions from Cincinnati employer [WLWT]
·  Lawyers: Appalachian Trail was client's 'road to redemption' [WLWT]
·  Man who hid on Appalachian Trail sentenced in $8.7M embezzlement case [WLWT]
·  Feds seek 7-year term for Milwaukee-native fugitive [Wisconsin Law Journal]
·  FBI Arrests Fugitive James Hammes at Trail Days [AppalachianTrail.com]
·  AT Thru-Hiker Bismarck Arrested at Trail Days on Embezzling Charges [The Trek]
·  James Hammes caught after hiding on the Appalachian Trail [TheJournal.ie]
·  American Greed: The Fugitives — "Deceitful Dad and the Missing Millions" [CNBC]
·  America's Most Wanted — Season 26, Episode 37 [America's Most Wanted]
.  A Long Walk's End [SB Nation]

A veteran television producer becomes the star of her own financial crime drama.

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The scion of a commodity trading fortune goes missing after his hedge fund implodes.

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Intro
We had AI analyze 50 hours of sports on TV. t detected gambling ads everywhere. Has the marketing gone too far? [WaPo]
Former JAFCU head, husband sued for allegedly embezzling $91M [WLBT3]
Filings reveal former JAFCU head likely facing criminal charges [WLBT3]

Sam Israel III
Sam Israel Jr., a Leader In Coffee Trading, Dies [NYT]
A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth and Fiction [NYT]
Hennessee Group ~40 Clients/$56M [SEC Admin. Order, IA Release No. 2871] — https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/admin/2009/ia-2871.pdf
Bayou 2003 Deposits Exceeded $125M [SEC Complaint, 05-CV-8376] — https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/comp19406.pdf
Bayou Clawback 95 Adversary Proceedings [Bankruptcy Court Filing] — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-nysb-7_06-ap-08422/pdf/USCOURTS-nysb-7_06-ap-08422-0.pdf
Samuel Israel III [SEC Litigation Release] — https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr19406.htm
Samuel Israel III [SEC Press Release] — https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-139.htm
Bayou Group [CFTC Press Release] — https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5121-05
Samuel Israel III [DOJ Sentencing Release] — https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/April08/israelsamuelsentencepr.pdf
Bayou Victims Forfeiture [DOJ Release] — https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/victims-bayou-hedge-funds-receive-another31-million-forfeited-assets-including-millions
James Marquez Co-Founder [InvestmentNews] — https://investmentnews.com/industry-news/news/bayou-mastermind-gets-20-year-sentence-14877
James Marquez Sentencing [InvestmentNews] — https://www.investmentnews.com/industry-news/news/former-bayou-ceo-sentenced-to-jail-13386
Samuel Israel III Manhunt [Fox News] — https://www.foxnews.com/story/hedge-fund-swindler-admits-staging-suicide-to-avoid-jail
Samuel Israel III Sentencing [Fox News] — https://www.foxnews.com/story/hedge-fund-swindler-gets-more-prison-time-for-trying-to-avoid-20-year-sentence.amp
Samuel Israel III Surrender [NBC News] — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna25495609
Samuel Israel III Disappearance [CBS News] — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-hedge-fund-swindler-no-suicide
The Search for a Missing Trader Goes Global [New York Times] — https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/business/14bayou.html
Did Fees at Bayou Overwhelm Diligence? [New York Times] — https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/business/did-fees-at-bayou-overwhelm
Clues to a Hedge Fund's Collapse [New York Times] — https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/business/clues-to-a-hedge-funds-collapse
Several Prominent Firms Invested in Bayou Hedge Funds [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112536690332726357
State May Have $100 Million Of Bayou Funds [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112541229967826650
Spotting a Bayou Before You Fall Into It [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112544063792727124
Bayou Is Probed as Investors Seek Their Cash [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112493803797122773
Suits Target Fund's Early Pullouts [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115621287849341876
Bayou Investors Who Got Out Early Lose Their Bid [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118679292540994807
Hedge-Fund Havoc: Missing Cash And a Principal's Suicide Note [WSJ] — https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112509707359124571
Robert Booth Nichols $10M Docket [CourtListener] — https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4334434/united-states-v-israel-iii/
Robert Booth Nichols Deposition [Archive.org] — https://archive.org/stream/RobertBoothNicholsDepositionSamIsraelCase/Robert+Booth+Nichols+deposition+-+Sam+Israel+case_djvu.txt
Hennessee Group Enforcement Action [SEC] — https://www.se...

A flamboyant adventurer known for exaggerating his military exploits returns to Great Britain with tales of a new land of opportunity on the Mosquito Coast.

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Sources:
Did you read? [r/portlandia]
Gregor MacGregor [Wikipedia]
The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History [Sinclair, David (2004)]
David Sinclair - The Sun sub who became a prolific author [The Guardian]
Amelia Island affair [Wikipedia]
Memoirs of Gregor M'Gregor [Rafter, M. (1820)]
Proceedings of an Inquiry and Investigation instituted by Major-General Codd, His Majesty's Superintendent and commander-in-chief at Belize, Honduras, Relative to Poyais [Daniel Crouch Rare Books]
Gregor McGregor and the Colonization of Poyais, between 1820 and 1824 [The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Nov., 1927), pp. 438-459 via JSTOR]
The king of con-men [The Economist via Wayback Machine]
List of ships of the Poyais scheme [Wikipedia]
Poyais land grant for 60 acres from Gregor MacGregor, April 1834 [University of Edinburgh]
Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, Including the Territory of Poyais [Daniel Crouch Rare Books]
Poyais Loan No. A551 One Hundred Pounds. [Daniel Crouch Rare Books]
Poyaisian Royalty: A George IV silver seal box, John Jago, London, 1823 [Sotheby’s]

Christopher Derry spent 36 years working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, 17 as a detective in fraud and cyber crime. Over that time, he’s seen a lot and learned a lot about why people commit fraud, how far they’ll go to keep it going, and what they’ll do to avoid being caught.

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