He Found No Oil, But Did He Finally Get A Date?
- 11/10/2011 7:26:16 AM
A Texas “oilman” is under indictment for allegedly convincing a 93-year-old woman to invest $200,000 - half of it borrowed from her bank - in a North Dakota oilfield, and then blowing the money on personal expenses that included fees to a dating service. The Texas State Securities Board said Robbie Dale Walker's victim had been his own mother's best friend. Still, Walker, of Dripping Springs, Texas, is charged with telling the elderly woman she would earn 15 percent annually by investing with him. But nothing went to an oil field, and everything went to Walker, regulators say - including items purchased with his victim's money from Best Buy, Tiffany and Co., and Louis Vuitton, along with Walker's membership to Match.com. An attorney for the State Securities Board will be a special prosecutor in the case, regulators said.
