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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPro-Trump PAC Exec Rants About Hillary After Feds Charge Him for Ponzi Scheme
In this country, politics has now been criminalized. Thats whats going on here, David W. Schamens claimed in a rambling phone call after he was charged.The treasurer of a pro-Trump political action committee that ran afoul of campaign finance laws almost immediately after it was formed has been charged with running an international Ponzi scheme in which he allegedly duped investors out of nearly $7 million that he used to fund his own opulent lifestyle, including vacations, luxury vehicles, and a down payment on a million-dollar home.
David W. Schamens, a 64-year-old North Carolina resident who in 1996 was barred from the securities industry by the SEC over allegations of fraud, is now accused of securities fraud, along with wire fraud and money laundering, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in New Jersey federal court.
Schamens, the feds claim, carried out a years-long scam with victims in at least three U.S. states and as far away as Australia. But Schamens, who heads a New Jersey-based firm that develops and sells stock-trading software, bizarrely claims the charges are a product of a political vendetta being carried out for his support of Trump, whom he now derides for breaking his campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
This is thermonuclear war now, Schamens told The Daily Beast of the governments decision to bring charges against him. Its made up. I believe 5,000 subpoenas have been sent out in the last year, have they not? I believe theres a statement by [Attorney General] Merrick Garland that said theyre going after anybody who supported January 6th, whether they were there or not. I wasn't there, but that's the pointit doesn't matter if you were there.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-w-schamens-pro-trump-pac-treasurer-rants-about-hillary-clinton-after-feds-charge-him-for-ponzi-scheme
It seems that "I'm being charged for being a Republican" is the cry these days, instead of the more accurate "I'm being charged for being a Republican crook".
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Pro-Trump PAC Exec Rants About Hillary After Feds Charge Him for Ponzi Scheme (Original Post)
Zorro
Mar 2022
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Deuxcents
(16,212 posts)1. Just how many "best people" did tfg associate with?
The whole lot of them, for one reason or the other, seem to be grifters . To the point: thieves.
bobalew
(321 posts)2. "I'm a VICTIM!"
Effin Crybaby Crook...