Just my opinion,
But I think part of Tom's problems lie with Stewart Sytner.
Who the hell runs a bogus off-shore bank, mysteriously hooks up with known con-artists like Mario Pino, Louie Lessor (which more and more appears to be another alias for Mark Pedley), actually has the balls to misrepresent his "bank" to help swindle $20 Million from a U.S. based fund, and at one point claims to be the Consul General to Papua New Guinea?
Stew's buddy Lidio Rancharan was caught also pretending to be a General Counsel (to Cuba) and was tagged and bagged for selling bogus life insurance policies via Panama.
Stew quits IBIE around the time the FBI started working with the group suing for recovery of the Sentinel Funds. What has IBIE turned out to be?
That being said, I honestly think Tom was hosed and misled by Stewart, who ironically, has been kind of quiet lately.