They split a nice chunk of change from trying to revictimize people here. The bogus fundraising claiming it was for legal expenses, trying to sell unregistered shares telling people the brokers would have to come for those shares, the fictitious PNG mining they never had access to.
You're in deep poop when you also try to claim you are a diplomat.
telling them that their money would be used for a variety of business opportunities, most prominently, a mining operation in Papua New Guinea. According to the Superseding Indictment, these opportunities were non-existent;