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WhiteTara

(29,694 posts) Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:05 PM Mar 2016

Jury says Vegas man bilked investors with Nigerian oil scam

http://news.yahoo.com/jury-says-vegas-man-bilked-investors-nigerian-oil-024520829.html

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Anton Paul Drago passed himself off as an heir to a Shell Oil fortune, a disabled former U.S. Marine, and an engineer and oil industry expert with 30 years of experience and a plan to ship Nigerian oil to a refinery he envisioned in the Bahamas.

But federal prosecutors say he was a con man who took victims' money, in amounts from less than $6,000 to $400,000, promising some that they could quadruple their money in two months.

"The defendant never exported one drop of oil from Nigeria, and none of his victims received legitimate profits from the scheme," Internal Revenue Service prosecutors said in court filings in the case against Drago.

Drago, 65, a Las Vegas resident who also used the name Evan Joseph Fogarty, was found guilty Wednesday of 10 charges including conspiracy, fraud, theft of government funds and submitting false Veterans Affairs claims.

He spent too much time with that Nigerian official...lol

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Jury says Vegas man bilked investors with Nigerian oil scam (Original Post) WhiteTara Mar 2016 OP

If anybody tells you they can quadruple your money in two months -- The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2016 #1

yep. WhiteTara Mar 2016 #2

I think it's amusing that he used Nigeria as part of his story. Nitram Mar 2016 #3

. Takket Mar 2016 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. If anybody tells you they can quadruple your money in two months --

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:12 PM

Mar 2016

run away as fast as you can. "A fool and his money are soon parted." That's not meant in any respect to justify what this asshole did, but greed and gullibility are a bad combination which makes the crimes of con men possible.