The FBI didn’t raid until Feb 19, 2016. That’s almost 10 months after the initial meeting. It appears that the raid happened only because Hayman escalated the claims and attacks on UDF. The FBI may have heard that banks were running, saw the stock plunge, and gave more credibility to the claims that was merited.
Hayman employed Chris Kirkpatrick (former SEC branch chief) and he was the one who approached his former office to present the Ponzi scheme claims.
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