He Tried to Hide His Role
- Robin Lyons
- 11 minutes ago
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He had an investor on the hook for his revolutionary cure for HIV, and he would let no one mess it up. It didn’t matter that there was no miracle cure. A scam is a scam is a scam.
The guy had already scammed the man once, so when he learned of the new miracle cure, he threatened to blow the whistle on the guy’s next business venture. But a potential investor for the HIV cure agreed to pay big—too big to let anyone impede that payday.
The scammer relied on a close friend to reach out to someone he knew who would arrange a murder-for-hire to take out the man threatening to blow the whistle. Several bad guys took part in the murder discussions about payment, which were more covert than those in many murder-for-hire schemes.
After law enforcement connected the man’s murder to the HIV cure founder, it came down to their investigators doing a mighty fine job connecting all the dots. Cellphone location data, purchasing records, and banking documents led to arrests which resulted in trials.
After the scammer’s verdict, an Acting U.S. Attorney said about the scammer,
“[The defendant] tried to hide his role in the murder of [the deceased] by paying one man to pay another man to pay the hitman.”
A judge sentenced the 43-year-old scammer to LIFE in prison. And the guys who assisted him in his murder-for-hire scheme:
37-years-old, sentenced to 16 years in prison
45-years-old, sentenced to 11 years in prison
38-years-old, sentenced to 9 years in prison
You might wonder about the potential investors in the HIV miracle cure deal. The investment went through for over fifteen million dollars. Then the truth came out. There’s a case currently working its way through the courts. The investor hopes to recover his money.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
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