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Interstate Transportation of Property Taken by Fraud

Fairfield County Resident Sentenced For Defrauding Investors, Ordered To Pay $1.5 Million Fairfield County Resident Sentenced For Defrauding Investors, Ordered To Pay $1.5 Million
Fairfield County Resident Sentenced For Defrauding Investors, Ordered To Pay $1.5 Million A man from Fairfield County will spend three years in federal prison for defrauding investors. Samuel Klein, age 66, of Greenwich, was sentenced to 36 months behind bars Tuesday, May 3. It followed a guilty plea in which Klein admitted to making false representations to an investor in his company, Visual Group LLC, in 2018, the US Attorney’s Office said. He allegedly told the victim that their $200,000 check would be invested in distressed debt despite knowing that not all of the money would be used for that purpose, prosecutors said. Distressed debt is another term for bonds that are b…
Greenwich Man Charged For Alleged NY Investment Fraud Scheme, Feds Announce Greenwich Man Charged For Alleged NY Investment Fraud Scheme, Feds Announce
Greenwich Man Charged For Alleged NY Investment Fraud Scheme, Feds Announce A Greenwich man could face 20 years in prison after allegedly depositing money given to him by a New York investor for his LLC in a Connecticut bank, soliciting more money from the investor for bogus title insurance and ultimately using the money for personal expenditures.  Samuel Klein, 64, was indicted on Monday, Dec. 7 on charges of interstate transportation of property taken by fraud and money laundering, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the State of Connecticut John H. Durham.  The victim reportedly invested $200,000 in Klein's LLC, "Visual Group," then an additio…