An Owensboro man is on trial in U.S. District Court on charges of defrauding “thousands of victims” of million of dollars in alleged pyramid and Ponzi schemes.
Richard G. Maike, of the 3700 block of Briarcliff Trace, was indicted with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and securities fraud in 2019. The criminal complaint filed by FBI agent David McClelland in 2017 alleged Maike “received over $12 million in investor funds” between June 2013 and September 2014.
Maike is on trial along with Doyce G. Barnes pf Goldsboro, North Carolina, and Faraday Hosseinpour of Jacksonville, Florida. One other defendant, Richard J. Anzalone, pleaded guilty. The case against two other defendants, Dennis Dvorin and Jason L. Syn, is pending.
The indictment alleges the six defendants “engaged in a $25 million fraudulent pyramid scheme, operating under the name Infinity 2 Global” or I2G.
The defendants allegedly enticed people to invest into what they believed was an online gambling site, “i2casino.com.” The indictment says investors were led to believe “I2G was generating massive profits from it’s online casino” and that investors would share the profits, largely by investing $5,000.
In a December 2013 posting on her website, Hosseinpour wrote, “… I just got back from the Long…
