The treasurer of a pro-Trump PAC has blamed “that b**** Hillary Clinton” for his arrest over an alleged Ponzi scheme that funded his lavish lifestyle.
David Schamens told The Daily Beast in an interview that Ms Clinton’s alleged political vendetta and his support of Donald Trump was behind the Justice Department’s charge that he duped investors out of $6.8m.
“That’s where this all started,” Mr Schamens said of Ms Clinton. “With that b**** Hillary Clinton… I had my computer seized, I had all my information seized, my daughter and my wife had automatic weapons pointed at them when they took it at 6 o’clock in the morning on August 31st.”
The Justice Department on Monday charged Schamens, 64, with one count of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering over the alleged scheme to defraud at least 25 people through several investment funds starting in 2014.
Under the promise of annual rates of return between 12 to 30 per cent, Schamens allegedly diverted at least $6.8m to repay earlier investors, while also funding the purchase of a house, payments for a luxury car, and other personal expenses.
“Schamens took several steps to keep his customers’ trust, including sending false account statements; posting false monthly account statements to his companies’ websites showing balances for trading accounts that did not exist; and sending false tax documents reporting earnings that did not exist,” the Justice Department alleged in a statement.
Schamens, however, told…
